As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

—Steve Maraboli

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Stress is like a pulse, if you have it you are alive.

—Steve Maraboli

It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending.

—Steve Maraboli

You must have a positive self perception in order to transcend anything.

—Steve Maraboli

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

—Steve Maraboli

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

—Steve Maraboli

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It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all.

—Thomas Merton

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

—Ray Bradbury

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When I turn away from nature — human, animal, earthly or cosmic — when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid.

—Sanfor Goodman

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

—Ray Bradbury

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