You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.
If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
I can resist everything except temptation.
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage. '
And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.
I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
Architecture. . . the adaptation of form to resist force.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out. . . The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.