Attained Quotes
394 quotes by 293 authors
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The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
— Thomas Merton
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The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a…
— Stephen Spender
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Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
— Paul Brunton
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The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until…
— Russell Kirk
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those…
— Paracelsus
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I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process…
— Andrew Weil
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Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
— Jack Ramsay
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Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens…
— Richard Robbins
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
— Ramakrishna
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In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as…
— Jack Kornfield
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
— Dogen
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Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more…
— Thomas Merton
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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is…
— Stephen Harper
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is…
— Meher Baba
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Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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