Quotes About Resistance

Kao pobije?eni revolucionar napustila je svoje seksualne barikade. Nešto se u njoj slomilo, nježno, tiho i nevoljko, i zagnjurila je lice u udubljenje izme?u mog ramena i uha, ne opiru?i se. Bio sam veoma uznemiren njenom neobi?nom nježnoš?u i tiho sam joj pri?ao ni o ?emu naro?itom dok nije zaspala u mom naru?ju.

to live against one's grain, that is degeneration by definition.

the Iraqi government had an army with 350,000 soldiers on which it had spent $41.6 billion in the three years since 2011. But this force melted away without significant resistance. Discarded uniforms and equipment were found strewn along the roads leading

Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something—brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct—effects movement.

We sometimes find ourselves changing our minds without any resistance or heavy emotion, but if we are told we are wrong, we resent the imputation and harden our hearts.

And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.

if we think we are facing an irresistible cosmic force of evil, it will invariably lead to giving in and giving up—usually with very little resistance. If you can convince yourself that you are helpless, you can then stop struggling and just "let it happen." That will seem a great relief—for a while. You can once more be a normal human being. But then you will have to deal with the consequences. And for normal human beings those are very severe.

The only way the devil can hurt God is through humans, and so he focuses upon us. His strategy is to try to frustrate God's purpose for humanity

Those who continue to be mastered by their feelings—whether it is anger, fear, sexual attraction, desire for food or for "looking good," the residues of woundedness, or whatever—are typically persons who in their heart of hearts believe that their feelings must be satisfied. They have long chosen the strategy of selectively resisting their feelings instead of that of not having them—of simply changing or replacing them.

They have long chosen the strategy of selectively resisting their feelings instead of that of not having them—of simply changing or replacing them.

As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation.

A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.

When change is bumpy and messy, particularly if it impels others to change, it is viewed with suspicion and rancor usually reserved for the worst heretics.

Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

Silenzio! Será mejor que escuche. Durante dos milenios su Iglesia ha dominado la búsqueda de la verdad. Ha aplastado a sus opositores con mentiras y profecías funestas. Ha manipulado la verdad según sus necesidades y asesinado a quienes descubrían cosas que no convenían a su política. ¿Le sorprende acaso ser el objetivo de hombres ilustrados de todo el globo?

la tiranía y la opresión nunca podrán derrotar a la compasión…que los gritos fanáticos de los bravucones del mundo siempre acaban silenciados por las voces unidas de la decencia que se elevan en su contra.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

Socrates, how do I stop my thoughts, my mind - other than by developing a sense of humor? -First you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. For example, you have a cold now; Its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

In life, stress happens when you resist... No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain. Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which — like any pain — signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it.

you see, Dan, when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race ; the thoughts that assail you are actually created by you

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.