Quotes About Attainment

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Cicero concluded that "the actual hitting of the mark [is] to be chosen but not to be desired,

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them in as far as they prove a hindrance to him.

Nature starts from the unknowable and finishes consciously. Inversely, art starts from certain conscious thoughts and finishes in something that can be perpetually taken up again. Art attains the Absolute because at that moment consciousness attains the unconscious.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

Awareness Increases Success

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

Effort means nothing. Execution is everything.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

Scientists often describe the autotelic aspects of their work as the exhilaration that comes from the pursuit of truth and of beauty. What they seem to describe, however, is the joy of discovery, of solving a problem, of being able to express an observed relationship in a simple and elegant form. So what is rewarding is not a mysterious and ineffable goal but the activity of science itself. It is the pursuit that counts, not the attainment.

May all that you wish for be the least you receive.

If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart; If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be; And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.

When you have a goal, there will also be a result.

The success we knew was only by achieving. But girls, today you celebrate success by being achieved..

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained." He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!