A Quotes
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“Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.”
“Attaining joy entails more than simply achieving success in the single aim of a person’s life work. Happiness in its truest sense is the unselfish ability to love other people. Perchance that is why it is better to lose at love than never to love at all. Until we lose at love, we are not willing to risk all, we are reluctant to let go of our last vestiges of selfishness to become the unselfish lovers that we must ultimately aspire to be in order to reach the requisite degree of emotional equanimity essential to attain bliss.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”
Source: The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency
“Attaining recognition is an individual journey; it cannot be bestowed upon us by others”
“Attaining the creative plain of human consciousness entails more than simply rebelling against social norms. In the rebellious stage, a person seeks freedom, but lacks the maturity to understand what they seek. A typical rebel lacks comprehension of the attendant responsibilities that personal liberation requires.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Attaining your victory depends on the position of your knees and the openness of your heart towards the King of Kings. When you pray without ceasing and believe without limits, you will experience God’s never-ending mercies.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.”
Source: Mental And Scholastic Test
“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”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Attainment of knowledge---means to see God in the form of Atma and to have the sense grown that ‘I am not body but I am God’.
Seeing God---is to see the Universe in Atma—God.
I am Atma. The Universe is in Atma, that is, the Universe is in me---the Atma---God”
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.”
“Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.”
“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
“Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.”
“Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.”
“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.”
Source: Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper
“Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.”
“Attempting suicide is one of the most intense, terrifying, and traumatic things one can ever experience in their lifetime. No human is designed to kill himself/herself.”
Source: Unfiltered: Grappling with Mental Illness
“Attempting to alleviate loneliness and unhappiness through technologically mediated interactions is simply a self-defeating approach. It’s an error akin to trying to quench thirst with brackish water. Just as consuming such water perpetuates the feeling of thirst, the more we depend on technology to address our spiritual and social needs, the more pronounced our sense of alienation and internal emptiness will become.”
Source: THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being
“Attempting to appropriate or denigrate the popularity of others will backfire and undermine yours.”
“Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.”
“Attempting to cling too tightly to any one chapter of our lives poses a futile challenge toward the flow of time.”
“Attempting to condense the effect of serial offence is immense nonsense; the culprit cannot silence the law. He will face the consequence when sentence is passed. Residence in jail will be his lot where other convicts will burst his smelly jelly belly.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.”
“Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway.”
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.”
“Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.”
“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance between you and disaster isn’t any longer than the stick or the wisdom that you exercised in choosing it.”
“Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Attempting to minimize or excuse a poor conscious choice that produced unpleasant fruit will not cease mistakenly.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Attempting to run from our mistakes shows personal weakness, and may hold implications for the harm we may have caused to ourselves or others.”
“Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being.”
Source: Has Christianity Failed You?
“Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Attempting to talk ourselves ‘out’ of the things that we’ve errantly talked ourselves ‘into’ is where our morals showed up late to a party that our greed never left.”
“Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.”
Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji
“Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.”
“Attempts and actions achieve the ambition.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.”
“Attempts at character assassination occur when it is too conspicuous to pierce your target with a bullet.”
“Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.”
“Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.”
“Attempts to create a mono-cultural society are recognized by the international community as a crime against humanity”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.”
Source: Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming
“Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.”