“Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.” IfsMindChildrenSufferingGivenPoorAcceptingPovertyRichJourneyExampleHumilityHolyAskingAshamedContemptEgyptRefusalAlms Book:Introduction to the Devout Life Source: Introduction to the Devout Life
“For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.” PeopleBelieveDifferentHappensSpiritualPoliticalAcceptingMoralPathDangerElementsWingsLifestyleAgendasInherentDisturbingRefusalRight WingCondemnationExplicitPolitical AgendasDifferent Lifestyles Author:Barbra Streisand
“By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.” MeanRealityEyeEnergySpeakSoundTermAcceptingOur LivesDestructionAcknowledgeDefiniteFear Of DeathRefusalParts Of LifeAdmittingInevitabilityParadoxicalFull LifeReality Of Death Author:Etty Hillesum
“Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.” MindRealitySufferingAcceptingRefusal Author:Marcus Thomas
“You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?” DoeAcceptingHellInformationCommunicationOffersUnderstoodStrivePainfulRefusal Author:James Tiptree Jr.
“Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.” MeanHelpingSinAcceptingOperationsSinnerRefusal Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.” MenWorldWritingLanguageAcceptingEnglish LanguageRefusal Author:Walter Kaufmann
“Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.” WholeStoriesAcceptingIntellectualPhilosophicalPreparationObsessedRefusalVictor'sPreparation For Death Author:Kenneth Branagh
“The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.” IfsNeedsGivingMadeDoneAcceptingSuccessfulDeterminationPhilanthropyRefusalPhilanthropistGiving Money Author:Tony Blair
“The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.” LittlesSometimesFatherBeliefCommonAcceptingSuccessfulDivineElementsConstitutionAttachmentYearningSentimentalFoundingRefusalCommon GoodDivine Wisdom Author:Simon Critchley
“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.” IfsMindHeartSelfWholeRealityPartyAcceptingSupportDemocracyEqualRacismHatredElectionBlindTeaWelfareOutcomesRefusalTea PartyDisinterest Author:Keith Olbermann