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«When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.»
«When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.»
Author: Gerald Jampolsky
| About:
Forgiveness,
Judgement,
Mind,
Peace,
Temptation
| Keywords:
Peace of, peace of mind, reminding, resist, teachers
«You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.»
Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
| Keywords:
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«You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el»
«The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways...are available thanks to technology.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
available, confronted, resist, technologies, technology, thanks
«The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
but, can, Everything, get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, resist, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
«We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
gain, resist, strength, temptation, The Temptations