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
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
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence… — John Hancock 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
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
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting… — Marianne Williamson 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
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation.… — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever… — Michael Eisen Copy Share Image
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image