“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first...” — William James Quote

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

I feel a huge sense of acceptance with my body by being open with my friends.