Terry EagletonAfter all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. This quote is about accepting everything that happens in your life with an open mind and not resisting it with your own emotions. Once you resist something it becomes more difficult to accept it. Once you resist something there is always another way to deal with it so there is no need to resist in the first place.
You can’t always change things but sometimes we have to accept what is going on and move on. When we hold on to things we waste our energy and don’t allow ourselves to grow and develop into who we truly are. This quote is very important because we can’t always control everything that happens in our life but we can control how we deal with the things that does happen.
We can choose how we react to things and if we react positively or negatively, which in this case will also affect other people’s reactions toward us.
Source: Why Marx Was Right
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