Attained Quotes

394 quotes by 282 authors

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,… — C.S. Lewis
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already… — Denis Diderot
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle… — Leo Tolstoy
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be… — Chinua Achebe
Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions… — U.G. Krishnamurti
You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and… — Ford Madox Ford
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it.… — Michael Crichton
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire… — Albert Ellis
My conception of freedom. â€” The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. — Marie Curie
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced… — Grenville Kleiser
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead… — Hans F. Sennholz
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let… — Samuel Johnson
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. — Samuel Johnson
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by… — Unknown Author
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.… — Soren Kierkegaard
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he… — Baruch Spinoza
When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have… — Rajneesh

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