Resisting Quotes - Page 5

• Podemos comprometernos a promover las verduras, las frutas y los cereales integrales en todos los menús. Podemos reducir el tamaño de las raciones y primar la calidad sobre la cantidad. Y podemos ayudar a crear una cultura -imagínense- en la que nuestros hijos pidan opciones saludables en lugar de resistirse a ellas.

  Michelle Obama

  Salud, Niños, Compromiso

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• ¿Puede haber algo más absurdo que mantener a las mujeres en un estado de ignorancia y, sin embargo, insistir con tanta vehemencia en que se resistan a la tentación?

  Vicesimus Knox

  Ignorancia, Justicia, Diversidad

  En Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) cap. 7

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• Resisting is worth doing.

  Veronica Roth

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

  Veronica Roth

  Boys, Trust Me, Divergent Series

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  Al MacInnis

  Education, Self Confidence, Independence

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• You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Real, Spirituality

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Overcoming, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Ideas, Voice

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Se admite generalmente que ningún hombre ha encontrado jamás la felicidad de la posesión proporcionada a la expectativa que incitó su deseo, y vigorizó su búsqueda; ni ningún hombre ha encontrado los males de la vida tan formidables en realidad, como le fueron descritos por su propia imaginación; cada especie de aflicción trae consigo algunos apoyos peculiares, algunos medios imprevistos de resistir, o poderes de soportar.

  Samuel Johnson

  Media, Realidad, Hombres

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.28

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• The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Casting Off, Law, Growth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

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• Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

  Peter Diamandis

  Attitude, Thinking, Careers

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• Creo que la responsabilidad de los demócratas puede residir más en resistirse a los esfuerzos de los republicanos en el Congreso, o míos cuando era presidente, para poner algunas normas y endurecer un poco a Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Thinking, Effort

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• Porque cuando el corazón insiste en su destino, resistiendo al encanto general, entonces la agonía es grande; también el peligro. Sin embargo, las fuerzas se habrán puesto en movimiento más allá del cálculo de los sentidos. Las secuencias de acontecimientos de los rincones del mundo se unirán gradualmente, y los milagros de la coincidencia harán que suceda lo inevitable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• ...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

  Thomas Merton

  Evil, Overcoming, Triumph

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• El perdón es como las artes marciales de la conciencia.
  En el Aikido y otras artes marciales, esquivamos la fuerza del atacante en lugar de resistirla.
  La energía del ataque se vuelve contra el atacante.
  Nuestro poder reside en no reaccionar. El perdón funciona de la misma manera.
  Cuando devolvemos el ataque, y la defensa es una forma de ataque, iniciamos una guerra que nadie puede ganar.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, War, Lying

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• How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Creative, Growth

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). "Simple Abundance", Random House

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• Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Moving, Challenges, Forests

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Pure Thought," (p. 90), 2000.

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• The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Views, Mind, Quality

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• There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

  Gertrude Stein

  Éxito, Ganar, Hombres

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.277, Vintage

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• resistiendo a la vida, descubre que el Ser es más que su propio ser; incluye el universo entero.

  Monica Furlong

  Self, Whole, Universe

  Monica Furlong (1986). “Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts”, Vintage

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• Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Government, American West

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• En la juventud, el dolor se precipita y se desborda, pero también se seca, como el torrente. En el invierno de la vida permanece como un estanque miserable, resistiendo toda evaporación.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Winter, Youth

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• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

  William Deresiewicz

  Errors, Doubt, Trial And Error

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

  John H. McWhorter

  Children, Honesty, Behave

  John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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