The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity , and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
He looked up at me with angelic eyes. "Doing what?" "You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist-
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.
Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. And the church helped me do that. My family helped that. The whole issue of struggle is critical in my life. Resistance, finding ways to resist. That does not mean you do somebody in to get it. No, it means finding ways to be human in what you do, but making sure that you get it done.
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.