“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.” IfsWayCertainReligionAcceptingMoralImpossibleTwentiesBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedPropositionsAlchemy Author:Karen Armstrong
“When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.” LittlesBookReasonDoneRunningPastAcceptingTwentiesPressesFeministBritainShopsSexismTwenty One Author:Dale Spender
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.” KnowsArtMy OwnAcceptingTasteTwentiesFortyWorks Of ArtMilieu Author:W. H. Auden
“Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.” FeelsTryingHappensMovingEnergyFeltHoursAcceptingFourAcceptanceTwentiesInsultInsults You Author:Rajneesh
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.” IfsYearsMindKindMayPersonsHappensEarthValuesNationsAnswersAttitudeAcceptingMoralHellTakenMankindBabyConscienceTwentiesRegardFabricConfrontingMind SetValue Systems Author:Jesse Jackson
“In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.” PeopleMenYearsPersonsMovingThreeAcceptingAliveBearsTwentiesSticksCommittedOld ManAutonomyEightySlothTibetanI'm Alive Author:Dalai Lama