Some shall reap that never sowAnd some shall toil and not attain.
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.