Inspirational Quote by David Deida

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

— David Deida

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

— David Deida

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch…

— Nathaniel Branden

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities…

— Chris Hedges

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

— Joseph Hume

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual…

— Barbra Streisand

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues…

— Henry Giroux