Stable Quotes - Page 3

• A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, World, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.165, Rodale

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• Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Use, Sticks

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• I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Scare, Ordinary

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• A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

  Phil Harding

  Economics, Century, Solutions

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• If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Strong, Thinking, Wind

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• Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

  Isocrates

  Adversity, Grieving, Evil

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Thinking, Rocks, Achievement

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• Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, Modesty, Fluctuation

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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• A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.

  Morton Blackwell

  Healthy, Movement, Flow

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• The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

  Ken Wilber

  Dream, Yoga, Doors

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.295, Shambhala Publications

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Mean

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• I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

  Sachin Kundalkar

  Love, Thinking, Want

  Sachin Kundalkar (2016). “Cobalt Blue: A Novel”, p.13, New Press, The

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• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Caprice, Flux

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• It is a basic human need that everyone wants to
  live a happy life. For this, one has to experience
  real happiness. The so-called happiness that one
  experiences by having money, power, and
  indulging in sensual pleasures is not real
  happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting.
  For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness,
  one has to make a journey deep within oneself and
  get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper
  levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at
  the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy
  at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Happy Life, Journey

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

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• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  Isocrates

  Depression, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

  Kenny Marchant

  Energy, Anwr, Today

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• [Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Mean, Opportunity

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• Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

  James T. Walsh

  Doors, America, Long

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• Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Eye, Swimming, Cells

  "Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves".

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• The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.

  Andrea Zittel

  Creative, Connections, Needs

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• Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

  John Armstrong

  Thrones, Weight, Empires

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.82, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  Zhuge Liang

  Distance, Flower, People

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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