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“You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.”
“You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.”
“You cannot be open to fully feel love
And all its beauty
Until you can be open to fully feel pain
In all its sorrow
In the strength of my heart
I saw the fragility of yours”
Source: The Touch of 10,000 Words: Musings and Poetry: Love, Life, Inner Magic and the Pursuit of Dreams
“You cannot be passive in life, or in time the natural man will undermine your efforts to live worthily. You become what you do and what you think about. Lack of character leads one under pressure to satisfy appetite or seek personal gain. You cannot successfully bolster a weak character with the cloak of pretense.”
“You cannot be politically correct in a war.”
“You cannot be prepared for everything, but you can be prepared for some things, and you will not be attacked by everything throughout your life, it will only come from some things, make sure you identify those things well!”
“You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.”
“You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you.”
“You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.”
“You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.”
“You cannot be quiet about things that you know.”
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.”
“You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.”
“You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.”
“You cannot be right and be in control.”
“You cannot be sad in a flower crown.” - Enzo”
“You cannot be sensual when you’re operating in survival mode.”
“You cannot be serious!”
“You cannot be shutout nor be hindered. Step into your AREA of EXCELLENCE where darkness recedes and light, unity and liberty ascends”
“You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“You cannot be solved. You can only be understood”
“You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.”
“You cannot be successful without failure.”
“You cannot be successful without passion. If you don't love what you're doing, if you don't have passion for it - forget it. Do something else. You'll be much more successful and you'll lead a lot happier life.”
“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.”
“You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]”
“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”
Source: Haunted
“You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.”
“You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.”
“You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did everything.”
“You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.”
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
“You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.”
Source: Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“You cannot be uncertain, because you know.”
“You cannot be unhappy, or even depressed, while you are not thinking.”
“You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.”
Source: Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out
“You cannot be who you are not.
Simply rest, sit still and unknot.
You may even try to emulate and inspire,
But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.”
Source: The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
“You cannot be who you are without having gone through what you went through.”
“You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.”
“You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.”
Source: Aims of Education
“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
Source: The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series
“You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
“You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.”
“You cannot beat time
by running through its carriages.”
Source: Your Angels Called and Left a Message: Divine Messages to Guide You to Happiness
“You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.”
“You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.”
“You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.”
Source: The Law of Success
“You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.”