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• Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Mysterious Benedict Society, Felt

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

  E. M. Forster

  Culture, World, Kingdoms

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

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• Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Long, People

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.4, Image

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• Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

  Susan Mitchell

  Yoga, Greatest Fear, Personality

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• ... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Way, Spirituality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.25, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Sick, Advice

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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• Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Fate, Birth, Abandoned

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• Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

  Jose Rizal

  Hate, Humble, Ideas

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• The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Song, Moving, Passion

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• For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

  Liam Neeson

  Successful, Games, Names

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• How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Loss, Admitting

  Stephen Fry (1996). “Making History: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

  Robert De Niro

  Eight, Rejection, Balls

  "What I've Learned". Esquire, January 2003.

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Brain, Secret

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Support, Terrorism

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• I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

  John Bunyan

  Depression, Men, Iron

  James Thomas, John Bunyan (2009). “Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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• Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

  Hillary Clinton

  Funny Inspirational, Heart, Long

  "Frontlines and Frontiers: Making Human Rights a Human Reality". Hillary Clinton's remarks at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland, December 6, 2012.

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• When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Grateful, People

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• Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Rocks, Frustrated, Jason

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Dragon Heir”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could not understand how the members of any academic profession could fail to be intrigued by the study of their own cultural heritage. What these historians did not grasp was that scientists will welcome the history of science only when it has been demonstrated that this discipline can add to our understanding of science itself and thus help to produce, in some sense, better scientists.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, Discipline, Understanding

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• If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'

  Liam Neeson

  Maybe Tomorrow, Today, Picks

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• The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Struggle, Long

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