Attain Quotes

688 Attain quotes by 485 unique authors

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. — Swami Brahmananda
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise… — Yvon Chouinard
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all… — Thomas Berry
To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance. — Paulo Coelho
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right… — Pope John Paul II
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it… — Ludwig Feuerbach
One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it. — Nicolas Malebranche
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .… — Laozi
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather… — John Rawls
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for… — Guglielmo Marconi
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to… — Pope Pius XI
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of… — Roger Caras
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life… — Thomas Merton
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard… — P T Barnum
Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no… — Julia Cameron
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell… — John Milton
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good. — Laura Cereta
We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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