We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Topic: Acceptance
More Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
More on Acceptance
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
For we that live please must please to live.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
