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• The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Keys

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• The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

  Gary Zukav

  Stress, Energy, Determined

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 11, 2016

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• Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Struggle, Creative

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 21, 2013

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Understanding, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.260, Rajpal & Sons

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• Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Scare, Inquiry

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation coming from the West." And internally, it's unsettling the whole situation. Now in Tunisian, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, the clash between the literalists and - the Islamists or the reformists is something which is going to be part of what we have to deal with as to the future of America.

  Tariq Ramadan

  America, Egypt, West

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• Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Openness, Wells, Knows

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• Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

  Henry Cloud

  Pain, Growth, Purpose

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2014

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• We understand nature by resisting it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Miscellaneous

  Gaston Bachelard (2002). “The formation of the scientific mind”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

  Yukio Mishima

  Giving, Forever, Mind

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

  Tom Flynn

  Religious, Cold, Truth Is

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• I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

  Anthony Head

  Ideas, Becoming, Stills

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Mean, Style, Special

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

  Fred Hampton

  Running, Fighting, Pigs

  "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.

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• Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

  Leigh Newman

  Pain, Feelings, Energy

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• While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

  Ian Hornak

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

  Cover Magazine, 1994.

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• Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Appreciate Life

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• Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Home, Government, Car

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• The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Complaining, World

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, Moving, Body

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