All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
—George Santayana
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
—Ray Bradbury
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
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
—Ray Bradbury
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
—George Ade
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
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
Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.
—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
—Thomas H. Huxley
You would think after the rejection I've been dealt in my life that I'd be used to it. But it doesn't get easier. Not really. It makes you cautious. It makes you careful not to get your hopes up.
—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers