Resisting Quotes

175 quotes by 150 authors

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States,… — Patricia Hill Collins
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. — Daniel Goleman
The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having. — Robin Sharma
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay… — Adyashanti
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else — Aldous Huxley
Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and… — Max Lucado
Openness doesnâ€™t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron
Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad.… — Ibn Ata Allah
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. — Swami Vivekananda
When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO… — Michael Eisen
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and… — Dani Shapiro
When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to… — Oprah Winfrey
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and… — Thomas S. Monson
We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama
Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step. — Henry Cloud
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? — Patrick Henry
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate… — James L. Buckley
Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If… — Deepak Chopra
My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrestâ€¦I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. — Rosa Parks
Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity — John Green

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