. . . love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
Appreciate life instead of resisting it.
Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.
Resisting is worth doing.
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.
Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.
Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.
When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.