Alan Watts Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Frustration Quotes

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

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Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of the basic causes for your not being enlightened. Nature cannot be amended; it has to be accepted. There is no way to be otherwise. Whosoever you are, whatsoever you are, that's how you are -- that's what you are. It is a great acceptance.

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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

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Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Denial Quotes

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Opposites Quotes