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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
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling,
in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome
which comes out of allowing things to be as they are
without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them,
in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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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
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
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
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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 so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
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
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
"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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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