“An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.” LifeMindIdeasMatterAcceptingAcceptanceGreatnessAbsolutesIntellectSmall Minds Author:Derek R. Audette
“To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.” MaySelfInterestPleasureAcceptanceDivineWillingAdvantageCrossesAbsolutesSakeDenySurrenderWelfareConformityDisabilityStatutesPenanceSubordination Author:George C. Lorimer
“Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.” HeartAsksAcceptanceDemandAbsolutesRefusePermission Author:Stephanie Laurens
“Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.” ThinkingMenMindReasonUseChoicesMoralVirtueAcceptanceDegreesPerfectionAbsolutesRationalityRelentlessGaugesMoral Perfection Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.” StatesBodyEyeFacesLeftGrowsUnderstandingAnimalBehindsWatchesSawsAcceptanceHairWallAbsolutesMoodObjectivesDesertGentleIsolationElectricLightningHer EyesTestingRestlessVividRetiredZoosWild AnimalLilithAnticsRacehorses Author:Anais Nin
“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.” IdeasSelfSacrificeDangerExampleAcceptanceAbsolutesElevatingSacrificing Everything Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsProblemSeemsScienceCertainForceBlackWhiteLevelsConsciousnessAcceptingAcceptanceAbsolutesPropertyMysteriousMarchBlack And WhiteSeemingThreshold Author:Douglas Hofstadter
“An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.” DeathIndividualBeliefNationsSuccessfulConditionsAcceptanceAbsolutesAcceptance Of Death Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.” IfsWantMeanDesireDoorsAcceptanceAbsolutesContentmentDiscontentDiscontentment Author:Rajneesh
“When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience. But it is possible to find one's way back. With affection and respect, I disagree totally with Penelope Lively's conviction about the 'absolute impossibility of recovering a child's vision.' There _are_ ways, imperfect, partial, fleeting, of looking again at a mystery through the eyes we used to have. Children are not different animals. They are us, not yet wearing our heavy jacket of time.” WayChildrenDifferentEyeUsedAnimalVisionMysteryAcceptanceAbsolutesCuriosityAffectionConvictionHeavyDrivenDisagreeImperfectFleetingImpossibilityJacketsLivelyTranquilThrough The EyesRecoveringDifferent Animals Author:Susan Cooper