“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. — David Viscott Copy Share Image
“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.” — Matthew the Apostle Copy Share Image
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“back when they were young and, if not hopeful, at least more joyful in their fatalism.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It’s a straitjacket called fatalism.” — Terry Law Copy Share Image
I also think 2/3rds fatalism is necessary for any relationship to be healthy. I can't handle obsessive people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure." "So what, it's stupid to even try?" "No. It's unwise to… — Genevieve A. Ross Copy Share Image
“I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There's no spring in his step. No smile on his face. There's just a grim determination, grown strong over the years due… — Shawn P. McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
Love is based on a mutual decision to live out a commitment and not on the limitations that we may discover in… — Meicee Copy Share Image
“Then the prophetess said to the witcher: "I shall give you this advice: wear boots made of iron, take in hand a… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“It is pure fatalism, undiluted by environmental variability. Good living, good medicine, healthy food, loving families or great riches can do nothing… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“When you really want something, when you lust, seek, desire, await, anticipate or expect, when you sit in front of the TV… — Martin Fillmore Clark Copy Share Image
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
![“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg)
