"Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This……" — Carson McCullers

"Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean."

— Carson McCullers

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. — Josh Billings
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate… — H. P. Blavatsky

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