Quotes About Resistance

Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

We don't like to have our basic assumptions challenged. It's too threatening.

Rather than living a life of resistance and trying to disprove our basic situation of impermanence and change, we could contact the fundamental ambiguity and welcome it. We don't like to think of ourselves as fixed and unchanging, but emotionally we're very invested in it. We simply don't want the frightening, uneasy discomfort of feeling groundless.

The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Chögyam Trungpa had an image for our tendency to obscure the openness of our being; he called it "putting makeup on space." We can aspire to experience the space without the makeup. Staying open and receptive for even a short time starts to interrupt our deep-seated resistance to feeling what we're feeling, to staying present where we are.

weather" we've been trying to resist. The essence of the fourth noble truth is that we can use everything we do to help us to realize that we're part of the energy that creates everything.

We acknowledge our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to fortify our cocoon.

People have no respect for impermanence. We take no delight in it; in fact, we despair of it. We regard it as pain. We try to resist it by making things that will last—forever, we say—things that we don't have to wash, things that we don't have to iron. Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Existe muito ressentimento e resistência à vida. Em todos países, isso é como uma praga que fugiu ao controle e está envenenando a atmosfera do mundo. Nesta altura dos acontecimentos, seria sensato pensar sobre essa situação e acostumar-se a desenvolver a bondade amorosa.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. When you want to say no to the situation you're in, it's fine to say no, but when you build up a big case to the point where you're so convinced that you would draw your sword and cut off someone's head, that kind of resistance to life is hell.

Hell is just resistance to life.

The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. When we feel resentment because the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its fieriness and its heaviness.

Igual que seguía considerando que la gravedad es una fuerza que atrae las cosas hacia sí, y no una simple cuestión que se encarga de las que menos resistencia opongan a ella, estaba segura de que el carácter era una lucha entre las buenas y las malas intenciones.

Helen,' said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, 'we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.

Calm down, she tells herself. Just because this has never happened to you before. Because you have reached the ripe age of thirty-one without knowing this peculiar derangement. For derangement is what it surely is; only by stern physical effort can she keep herself from looking at him, touching him.

The English rose against William every year between 1067 and 1070.

You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.