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“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.”

Facts Realizing Accepting Growing Up Growing Discipline

Author:Loretta Young

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.”

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”

“Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.”

“If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.”

People Ifs Self Goal Realizing Loses Impossible Achieve Discipline Exercise Weight Sticks Self Discipline Setting Goals Lose Weight

Author:Daniel Goldstein

“...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.”

Made Realizing Common Progress Sacrifice Willing Discipline Interdependence

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.”

Earth Spiritual Life Is Realizing Failing Discipline West Karma Spiritual Life Fulfilled Worldly Eastern Dharma Worldly Life

Book:Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man

Source: Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man

“It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.”

Feels Writing Enough Realizing Discipline Stable Partnership Strict

Author:Kate Zambreno

“I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.”

“Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.”

Should Children Helping Shows Certain Goal Realizing Views Growing Stage Discipline Exercise Ultimate Our Children Aim Your Children Fulfilment Freedom And Happiness

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.”

Energy Realizing Hours Morning Discipline Scene Capable Work Out Surviving Grind

Author:Richard Schiff

“Managing the boundaries between work and the rest of our lives - family, community, and the private self - is now a much more daunting task. The good news is that there are ways to realize the promise of greater focus and presence on the moment for better performance and results, but it does take discipline and practice to get there.”

Moments Realizing Community Focus Discipline Promise Boundaries

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.”

Firsts Self Facts Spiritual Realizing Powerful Existence Discipline Block Stumbling Actuality Spiritual Disciplines Stumbling Blocks

Book:Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Source: Zen and the Birds of Appetite