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What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others:
or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson

I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39

Resists Quotes and Sayings

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

Resisted Quotes and Sayings

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Resisting Quotes and Sayings

Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Resistance Quotes and Sayings

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung

The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing Quotes and Sayings

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson

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