“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.” PeopleIfsLifeGivingMotivationalSuccessOpportunityForcePowerfulAcceptingFailingWillingBlessingEssentialsHandleBitterMost PowerfulDisguisePillsBounceBlessings In Disguise Author:Joseph Sugarman
“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.” WorldFeelsWritingHumansDealsResponsibilityAcceptingPrinciplesPositionBearsHorrorEssentialsPaidAversionSpecialization Author:Vaclav Havel
“The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.” MenDoeSpiritualFoundChurchAcceptingEssentialsAuthorityStatementsBeing TrueMatureWorthwhileExaminationInfancy Book:Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Source: Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenSelfProblemKidsUniverseParentChallengesPerfectAttitudeAcceptingGoneEssentialsOur ChildrenSolveSelf ConfidenceSupposed To BeEmpoweringRealisticSerenityProblem SolvingParts Of LifeReacting Author:Barbara Coloroso
“We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.” NeedsHumansWellsWould BeLastsNationsWealthRaceAcceptingPovertyShareSpecialConditionsCenturyCreationMaterialsEssentialsAbsolutesDenyHuman RaceHuman ConditionQuestsTwentieth CenturyPoorestThose In NeedMaterial Wealth Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.” HumansValuesEffortAcceptingFiveViolenceAirEssentialsAnd LoveScriptureSincereWorthwhileNon ViolenceHuman ValuesPranaRight Conduct Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.” KnowsShouldCertainAcceptingEssentialsCigaretteModeratesBeneficialPositively Author:Charles Kennedy
“Every American at some point has got to make the connection between their own hopes and dreams and who is elected to office. It's essential. It's very easy to pull the covers up over your head and say, "I can't handle it. Too much." But we just have to handle it and we have to accept that it's our job. Each of us. Nobody is going to take care of it.” I CanDreamCareJobsEasyAcceptingToo MuchEssentialsOfficeConnectionsTake CareHandleOver YouHopes And DreamsCover Ups Author:Barbara Boxer
“I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."” MenWantGivingLongStrongFunAcceptingEssentialsCapacityLuckQuittingGentleUnlikelyGood LuckStrong Man Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.” IfsWellsImportantSufferingHumanityJusticeMy OwnAcceptingViolenceEssentialsGoodnessCapacityStrongerSafetySakeSupremeWell BeingReignCriteriaUntruthTruth And Justice Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority... it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.” PeopleIfsMenHumansWellsMadeShowsAbilityAcceptingLaughingDivineHolyEssentialsAuthorityAssumingAtheistInternalsAbsurdityIndispensablePremisesMockeryEmancipationBlasphemyInconsistency Author:Christopher Hitchens
“If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.” IfsWantLongFactsDealsAcceptingForeverEssentialsDefinitionsMortalityPretendingProcrastinationProcrastinatingStop ProcrastinationEssential Questions Author:Surya Das