Attained Quotes

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.… — Swami Vivekananda
People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking… — Francis Howgill
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few… — Samuel Johnson
Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And… — Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad… — Bruce Jenner
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. — Gary Zukav
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to… — Isabel Allende
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. — Michelangelo
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad
There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess TÄrÄ. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon… — Dalai Lama
Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C.S. Lewis
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. — Zhuangzi
There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility. — Jaggi Vasudev
One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following… — Swami Vivekananda
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their… — Edgar Allan Poe
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to… — Albert Ellis

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