However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. - Michael Foley
Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what is written are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it. - Finis Jennings Dake
Never reject your dark side for it is part of you. Accept it and learn how to use it for good deeds, then you will be able to find inner peace. - Vitali Zverev
When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. - Santosh Kalwar
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand
I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Realize your true strength when people reject you. In actual fact, they do not reject you. They only show you your real strength - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. - Lucian Freud
It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego. - Janis Birkeland
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones! - Israelmore Ayivor
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. - James A. Michener
When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind. - Shannon L. Alder
Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo! - Tara Adams
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. - Charlie Chaplin
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. - Jack Steinberger
Reject every negativity with positive response. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. - Victor Hugo
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.
Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery. - A.E. Samaan
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throbbing pain has slowly turned into numbing emptiness.. - Laarni Venus Marie
The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them. - Confucius
When we choose to reject those who live differently, we murder our humanity. - J.Adam Snyder
If we reject science, we reject the common man. - نجيب محفوظ
If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you. - Auliq Ice
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. - Chuck Palahniuk
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true. - Alice Bag
Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed. - Robert H. Schuller
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. - Hermann Hesse
We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE. - Jayce O'Neal
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend. - Gary L. Francione
Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind. - Max McKeown
After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it? - Deyth Banger
they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience. - Santosh Kalwar
God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path. - Jim George
By telling lie you can hide the truth, but u can't reject it. - Munendra Dwivedi
Fools do not acknowledge God,the proud reject Him,the wise embrace Him,and the righteous worship Him. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope. - Auliq Ice
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury
Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it! - Syed Ather
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. - Bruce Lee
There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are. - Daniel Willey
It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do. - Mike Doughty
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had. - Jerry Garcia
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans. - Gary L. Francione
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. - Swami Vivekananda
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. - Max Lerner
Sometimes ignorance is a bliss. If you reach enlightenment (in one way or another), you may see the reality of human nature. You may like it, or you may reject it. But certainly you won't regret it. Rise again! - MD. Muhtashimur Rahman
There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment. - Lao Tzu
In our country let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy Nigeria unity. - Saminu Kanti
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become. - Stefan Molyneux
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. - Augustine of Hippo
...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs. - Arthur Keith
The fact regularly faced in telling people first the odd truths is that some don’t openly reflect, but most outrightly reject; and when it turns out to be correct publicly, they accept only to give often its credit to a person who desires but doesn’t deserve respect. - Anuj Somany
Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true. - Criss Jami
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. - Swami Vivekananda
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. - J. Sidlow Baxter
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well. - Gary L. Francione
Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family. - David Brooks
If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success. - John Mattone
I can give not what men call love;But wilt thou accept notThe worship the heart lifts aboveAnd the heavens reject not:The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow? - Percy Bysshe Shelley
We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government. - Dave Champion