Attainment Quotes - Page 12

• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

  Elsa Barker

  Light, Shining, Unattainable

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

  Alan Keightley

  Giving Up, Believe, Important

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• A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Being Free, Helping

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.236, eKitap Projesi

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• Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Character, Other Worlds

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• Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

  Freya Stark

  Profound, Needs, Body

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.86, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Emotional

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Justice, Endeavor, Humans

  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University

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• Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Fighting, Expression

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.86, Penguin

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• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

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• The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

  Barbra Streisand

  Dream, Hope, Lying

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Authority, Intrinsic Value, Painter

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Character, Simple

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• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

  Garth Stein

  Dream, Believe, Night

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Character, Adversity

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.187

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• The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Inspirational, Political, Politics

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Truth, Rights, Justice

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

  R. H. Tawney

  Riches, Wealth, Hell

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• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Moving, Yoga

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• Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.

  Pope Francis

  Keys, Justice, Political

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Suffering

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humble, Pride, Intellectual

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• Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.

  Pat McCrory

  Jobs, Moving, School

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