Gradually Quotes

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There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in… — Dalai Lama
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they… — Zhuangzi
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed… — Francois Fenelon
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually… — Joshua Foer
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from… — Abraham Lincoln
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it… — William James
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. — Jacques Wirtz
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. — Lauren Fleshman
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to… — Italo Calvino
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity… — Dalai Lama
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because… — Thomas Huxley
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time.… — Mary Kay Ash
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt… — Emmet Fox
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll… — Isaac Asimov

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