Determined Quotes - Page 10

• I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Listening, Speech

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Majestic

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Two, Monsters, Saint

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• Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Men, Cost

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• Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1959). “Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3”

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• The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Stars, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Firsts, Connections

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Lock and Key”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

  Tom Robbins

  Memorable, Personality, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.23, Bantam

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• His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one.

  Christine Feehan

  Strong, Mind, Pieces

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• You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. You're determined to actually join some clubs this year and not just sit around in your dorm eating spray cheese from a can and watching youtube videos about cats.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Cat, Math, Years

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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Luck, Important

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspiring, Helping Others, Purpose

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Moving, Men

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• Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Forever, Age

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• Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Today, Tomorrow, Autobiography Of A Yogi

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• Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Should, Wanted

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• On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Maybe Tomorrow, Forgiving, Needs

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• And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Voice, Soul, Stills

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• Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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• Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Angel, Thinking, Average

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Majority Vote, Catholic, Truth Is

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• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Spirit, Personal Development

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.76, Tuttle Publishing

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• He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

  John Piper

  Age, Vices, Novelty

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• Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, World, Leaving Me

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.72, Penguin

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• But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was fated that Sin would loose his godhood. The means and what followed were determined by free will. Free will is that one scary variable that sets so much into motion that no one, not even I, have control over. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fate, Scary

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