Resisting Quotes - Page 9

• A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Life, Blow, Wind

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• The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Temptation, Wish

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• Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its 'necessities' gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany's losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it.

  Milton Mayer

  War, Winning, Government

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• The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Responsibility, Doe, Tasks

  Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

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• The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

  Pema Chodron

  Roots, Suffering, Matter

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

  Shams Tabrizi

  Thinking, Worry, Upside Down

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• Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

  Kat Von D

  Feelings, Weakness, Overcoming

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• At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. ... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.

  John Welwood

  Spiritual, Communication, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Names, Tragedy

  "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.

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• Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Temptation, Empowerment

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.104, Thomas Nelson

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• Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.

  Geneen Roth

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Nov 20, 2012

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• God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

  William Penn

  Prayer, Evil, Temptation

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.840

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• A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Moving, Sea, Water

  "Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950)". Book edited by Karen Hunger Parshall and‎ Jeremy J. Gray, September 6, 2007.

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• It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Struggle, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

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• When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

  Alan Garner

  Writing, Simple, World

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all. Women begin by resisting a man's advances and end by blocking his retreat. If you want to change a woman's mind, agree with her. If you want to know what a woman really means, look at her - don't listen to her.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Block, Real

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• Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Spiritual

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