Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 143 authors

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles de Gaulle
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. — Walter Lippmann
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. — Gautama Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets… — Gautama Buddha
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root… — Gautama Buddha
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Hosokawa Tadaoki
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,… — Ken Wilber
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one… — Charles Eliot Norton
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its… — Pope Pius XI
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the… — Jim Elliot
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with… — John Ruskin
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. — Jack Kornfield
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
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Nowadays, hoy en dÃa, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination,… — Denise Chavez
The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire. — Bill Crawford
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the… — Thomas Chalmers

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