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Being Accepted Quotes

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
- Paulo Coelho

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
- Terry Bradshaw

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
- Billy Corgan

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
- Larry Doby

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
- Olympia Dukakis

It's the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.
- Elizabeth Eulberg

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
- C S Forester

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
- Dave Pelzer

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.
But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?
Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.
- Louise Penny

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
- Sonny Rollins

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
- Erich Segal

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