Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was… — Farnaz Fassihi Copy Share Image
For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“They understood freewill wasn’t about physically resisting. Physical resistance isn’t always possible … it is mentally, emotionally, and spiritually withstanding the pressure… — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
The key to resisting the hardship and discord that intrude upon every human life, is to cultivate a certain attitude toward adversity… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I knew then that I'd give in if he asked. All this fighting-this resisting-it was just because deep down, I knew that… — Kelley R. Martin Copy Share Image
I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his… — Horace Copy Share Image
But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“You can't keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You'll give in eventually, and I won't quit until you do.” — Kelsey Ketch Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Why do I have such a hard time resisting you? she asks in a breathing whisper. Because you know we belong together.… — J.C. Cliff Copy Share Image
If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“It’s a lot more effective and much less exhausting when you learn to stop resisting. When you can learn to float with… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
“If two or three of the most important people in your life are telling you something and you are resisting it with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image