Inclination Quotes - Page 13

• I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

  Anthony de Mello

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Way

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.25, Image

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• I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.

  James Alison

  Teaching, Currents, Homosexual

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Mother, Artist, Littles

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.

  Moby

  Expression, Emotion, Vulnerable

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Devotional, Fries

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• Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Real, Mean, Preaching

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• If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.

  Isaac Newton

  Angel, Opportunity, Two

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• The holiest of Christians, and those who understand best the gospel of Christ, find in themselves a constant inclination to look to the power of the creature, instead of looking to the power of God and the power of God alone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Looks, Power Of God

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285”, p.116, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

  Christian Wiman

  Should, Conform, Suspicious

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• Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Philosophy, Yoga, Class

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• Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Simplicity, Needs, Complicated

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very best person in the field for an available faculty position. In the period after World War II Harvard literally engaged in world-wide searches for the very best and created a culture in which it was simply unacceptable to hire friends and associates, to make decisions based on personal affections or inclinations.

  Henry Rosovsky

  War, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects.

  Norman Lock

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, School, Careers

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• I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.

  Sue Tompkins

  Growing Up, Artist, Gaps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Completeness, Within You

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Writing, Mean

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• The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Blessed, Past

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• We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

  George Etherege

  Helping, Affection, Pleasure

  1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

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• There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Criminals, Morality

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• Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Two, Heaven, Shadow

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 9,

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• As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ebb And Flow, Tides, Judgment

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina”, p.246

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