Quotes About Attainment

However, the desire to be enlightened can be a problem. It is when it is not all that important to you that you will attain enlightenment.

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

To pluck the fruit of hope, we must be as high as him. (Pour cueillir de l'espoir le fruit, Il faut être aussi haut que lui)

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.

Completion is the only measure I know of a job well done.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Personhood is not a gift; it is a continuing struggle; the gift is attained later, and only from living a mindful journey where, prompted by an inner summons, we write our story at last.

However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

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I want to win something with Lazio, and I am not talking about just winning games.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

but you must see a new world before you can live in it. It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.

It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution.

Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the Source) beckon intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.

He stays a witness to life, so he endures. Serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled. Through selfless action, fulfillment is attained.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.