No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu Copy Share Image
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher. We can’t afford to shy away from the things that intimidate us. We… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms. — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I did play semi-pro ball for a time. It was the line of least resistance. — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image