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“As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.”

Mind Looks Able Accepting Meditation Buddhism Horror Equal Kinder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.”

Ifs Accepting Fire Equal Uncomfortable Deep Down

Book:The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

Source: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

“This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.”

Men Humans Religion Human Beings Accepting Mankind Brother Equal Members Islam Human Family

Book:February 1965: the final speeches

Source: February 1965: the final speeches

“How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.”

People Needs Humans Children Important Different Facts Asks Human Beings Answers Compassion Accepting Teach Laughing Equal Experiments Classroom Important Questions

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”

Ifs Knows Humans Fall Human Beings Accepting Grace Equal Neighbor Severity

Author:Stefan Zweig

“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.”

“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”

Needs Giving Feels Humans Wells Accepting Marriage Expression Equal Ideals Instinct Intellect Partners Setting Settings Human Relations Human Relationships Happy Marriage

Book:The Integrity of the Personality

Source: The Integrity of the Personality

“The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."”

“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.”

Ifs Inspirational Mean Done Religious Responsibility Accepting Too Much Son Promise Equal All Things Victim Outcomes Villain Hung Offspring Being Done Recoil

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.”

Should Heart Natural Pleasure Accepting Too Much Equal Injustice Pursue

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.”

People Doe Country Law Values Challenges Accepting Happened Particular Equal Europe Islam

Author:Mark Durie

“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.”

“If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.”

Ifs Mind Heart Self Whole Reality Party Accepting Support Democracy Equal Racism Hatred Election Blind Tea Welfare Outcomes Refusal Tea Party Disinterest

Author:Keith Olbermann

“If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.”

Ifs Way Given Grows Growth Church Responsibility Accepting Lord Wonderful Equal Remarkable Marvelous

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley