Resisting Quotes

175 quotes by 151 authors

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into… — Eckhart Tolle
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living… — Sue Monk Kidd
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. — Norman O. Brown
Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think â€˜My life will be upside downâ€™ donâ€™t worry.… — Shams Tabrizi
Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting… — Kat Von D
At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we… — John Welwood
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It… — Geneen Roth
Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment. — Lysa TerKeurst
The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians -… — James Davison Hunter
The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming… — Pema Chodron
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. — Gary Zukav
Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow… — Marianne Williamson
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. — Laozi
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or… — Harry S. Truman
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from… — Pema Chodron
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation… — Pema Chodron

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