One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense. . . . [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.
Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.
