Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us.” — Longfellow Copy Share Image
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have. — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
“Resistance to change" is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
“Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance” — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way.… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“How many people die because of Palpatine's rule every year? Is it deadlier to fight against that kind of tyranny or to… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America,… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like #resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Disease is a resistance of the opposing forces in your body. The result of this resistance could be anything from formation of… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength.… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image