Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.
Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.
She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.
There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.