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• Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Goal, Custodians, Purpose

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creative, Path, Unexpected

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 26, 2012

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• The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Ocean

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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• Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

  John Baldoni

  Leadership, Goal, Outcomes

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Negative, Needs

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• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

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• The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.

  Joseph Abboud

  Fashion, Mistake, People

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• By thought I embrace the universe.

  Blaise Pascal

  Universe

  Blaise Pascal (1947). “Pascal's pensées”

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• I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

  Roger Waters

  Learning, Journey, Addiction

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• We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

  William James

  Unique, Novelty, Patches

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• Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

  Brian Swimme

  Death, Cherish, Awareness

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• That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right in the face. You can't have one without the other. Your faith won't survive without hope, and hope won't survive without the realization that there are mysteries that will not be answered. If you can embrace both, you can have a vibrant faith.

  Kay Warren

  Essence, Realization, Faces

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• And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I’m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fun, People, Hug

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Moving, Men, Mind

  "Theological-Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, (Preface), 1670.

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• I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Trying, Plant, Rugged

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• Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Determination, Passion

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• Today, I embrace my potential to be, do, and have whatever I can dream.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Today, I Can

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• On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

  Emanuel Celler

  Equality, Hands, Law

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Contentment

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• There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.21, Penguin

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• The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

  Origen

  Heart, Humans, Small Things

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• If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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