#reject

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cities-and-countries #city #enmity #glory #love

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#rejection #friendship

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Erich Segal

#afraid #reason #reject #love

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#closer #compensation #filling-the-void #god #horrific

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#perception #rejection #self-awareness #life

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#everybody #game #going #i #illness

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#agreements #between #condemning #especially #forms

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#back #came #despite #i #i came

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#big government #built #country #government #inside

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

#feel #going #i #i always #keeps