Attainment Quotes

209 quotes by 177 authors

I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only emptiness; it is… — Rajneesh
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high.… — Greg Norman
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse;… — Joseph Lancaster
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Unknown Author
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments. — Thomas Merton
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that… — Dan Millman
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by… — Meher Baba
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us… — Corinne Heline
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt
...There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again... — Saint Francis de Sales
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic… — Sri Aurobindo
The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth… — Dalai Lama
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try… — Ernest Hemingway
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love… — Will Ferguson
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way — Havelock Ellis

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