To want is more than to attain.
You would attain to the divine perfection.
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world. . . Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.
Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.
The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.