Best breaths & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.”

Trying Effort Too Much Breaths Safety Broke Deep Breath Safety Net Take A Deep Breath

Book:Conversations with Salman Rushdie

Source: Conversations with Salman Rushdie

“As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.”

People Mean Dies Courses Born Effort Clear Subjects Breaths British Allegiance Treason Lure Mercenary

Author:John A. Macdonald

“... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.”

Difficult Effort Walking Ordinary Breaths Everyday Delicate Terrific Everyday Living

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“I've been doing Isha Kriya meditation and love it. Don't get me wrong, it isn't easy or available everyday - but I'm making the effort to stop, sit, breath, and connect.”

Easy Effort Meditation And Love Breaths Everyday Available

Author:Kathryn Budig

“I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys.”

Should Said Ends Whole Eye Joy Order Effort Clear Understood Flow Roots Breaths Enjoyed Perceive Contemplation

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.”

Should States Effort Our Lives Progress Breaths Obedience Pilgrim

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Pain Life Is Values Effort Birth Breaths

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

Reason Lasts Past Lying Force Causes Effort Gone Clear Happened Effects Events Broken One Day Horse Breaths Careful Snow Fixed Sat Wet Yards Fragments Fixing Looking Down

Author:Robin Hobb

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value”

Pain Life Is Values Perfect Effort Birth Cost All Things Ultimate Breaths Devotion Best Things Sweat Things In Life Agony Best Things In Life

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad.”

Thinking Way Enough Bigs Lasts Hurt Effort Breaths Shoulders Teeth Supposed To Be Last Time It Hurts Reminders Werewolf Reassuring Muzzle

Book:Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson

Source: Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson

“In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.”

Feels Should Mind Ideas Body Care Natural Effort Meditation Special Conditions Awareness Pure Letting Go Taxes Breaths Take Care Your Body Peaceful Ritual Solemn Meditating Unchanging

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

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