"What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes."

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Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.159, Univ of California Press

Edward Sapir

#Acceptance Quotes #Mind Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.”
“Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.”

Source : David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.85, Shambhala Publications
“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”

Source : "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.
“That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?”
“Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.”
“Campaigning actress ASHLEY JUDD refuses to 'breed' with her racing star husband DARIO FRANCHITTI while there are starving children in the world. .Â .Â . She says, 'It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.'Â ”
“By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant”
“Our aim is to appeal to reason. â€¦ Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.”

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