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- Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to…
- When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
- I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of…
- There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard…
- Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career.…
- It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The…
- The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the…
- We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on…
- No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our…
- Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
- Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
- The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because…
- Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its…
- When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
- Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of…
- Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and…
- This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates…
- We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day…
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
- Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to…
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared…
- All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong