don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice. " One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.
I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarrymancarpenterpig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.
People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy. " I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
