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Letter "R" » resistance
«It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.»
Author: Claude M. Bristol
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Keywords:
breaking away,
breaks,
break away,
constant,
determined,
Obstacles,
resistance,
sweeps,
sweep away,
sweep over,
sweep through,
sweep up
«Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.»
Author: Dan Millman
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Keywords:
creates,
objective,
phenomenon,
Physical pain,
physical phenomenon,
psychological,
relatively,
resistance,
resists,
stress,
unfolds
«The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.»
«Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.»
«Paralyze resistance with persistence»
«Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.»
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
belief,
bodies,
chastity,
consent,
consented,
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energy,
estates,
modern,
moderns,
perilous,
pulsating,
resistance,
The Pleasure,
This Modern World,
vast,
Vaster,
vastest,
worlds
«I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
advantage,
assess,
assessed,
assesses,
assessing,
endures,
resistance,
torture,
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torturing,
turn to
«That getting along without false judgments would amount to getting along without life, negating life. To admit untruth as a necessary condition of life: this implies, to be sure, a perilous resistance against customary value-feelings.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
customary,
implies,
judgments,
negate,
negated,
negating,
perilous,
resistance,
to be sure,
untruth,
untruths,
value judgment