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«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.»
«The Prince of Chintz wears well and resists stains.»
«The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it»
Author: John Ray | Keywords: resists
«Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.»
Author: William Bridges | Keywords: disaster, resists
«You can only lean against that which resists.»
«For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God»
Author: John Calvin (Statesman, Theologian) | About: God | Keywords: mighty, resists, rise up, strives
«It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.»
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»