We Resist Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we… — Shirley MacLaine
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration… — Woodrow Wilson
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual… — Thomas Nagel
What we resist persists. — Sonia Johnson
As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day… — Tara Brach
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being… — Casey Miller
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we… — Michael Faraday
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little… — Erving Goffman
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we… — Jack Kornfield
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?â€”yea,… — Cotton Mather
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the… — Thomas Nagel
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move… — Iyanla Vanzant
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for… — Blanche Barton
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise… — Hugh Mackay
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it.… — Elizabeth Lesser
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that… — Kevin Vanhoozer
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside… — Paulo Coelho

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