Maxioms Pet

X
  •   45  /  49  

    Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  19  /  30  

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he read more

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  34  /  28  

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a read more

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction

by William Osler Found in: Apathy Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  23  /  36  

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use read more

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

by Marge Piercy Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  10  /  31  

Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  42  /  38  

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always read more

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.

by Kurt Cobain Found in: Apathy Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  63  /  58  

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

by Victor Hugo Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  21  /  34  

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  ( comments )
  36  /  34  

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

by A.w. Hare And J.c. Hare Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  18  /  30  

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.

by Francois Rabelais Found in: Will Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet