After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
You cannot attain # mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do
Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
Attain deliverance in disturbances.
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. . . . I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
To want is more than to attain.
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings. . . let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.