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passive Quotes

Eight of the best book quotes about passive
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“Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn’t do anything about it.”
John Steinbeck
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The Winter of Our Discontent
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“If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and you cannot be a person worthy of love when your primary goal in life is to passively be loved.”
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“A passive life of enjoyment affords . . . [man] the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature.”
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“And since people ‘receive’ the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because he or she is better ‘fit’ for the world”
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“The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover that (as in the home) in order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have been set from above. One of these precepts is not to think”.
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“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
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“When God makes a way for you through your trials, it is an active, not passive, process.”
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“Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.”

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