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You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.
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Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.
sarada devi— Thus Spake the Holy Mother (p. 78).
The desired goal of the soul is to attain the selfless Divine love of Radha Krishn who are eternally related to you.
jagadguru kripaluji maharaj— Saraswati, S. 2001. The true history and the relfigion of India: a concise encyclopedia of authentic hinduism. Motilal Banarsidass.
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.
john dee— ?"The Mathematical Preface" to Henry Billingsley's English translation of Euclid's Elements (1570)
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
ramakrishna— p. 874 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain spiritual perfection (moksha), or freedom from transmigration of the atman . The social existence of an individual is means for attaining this supreme goal. Since an individual cannot attain moksha without fulfilling his (her) individual and social duties, responsibilities and obligations, Hindu social philosophy...includes the essential social principles and practices, goals of human life: dharma (moral law), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure), and moksha (spiritual perfection, the ultimate goal).
— Bansi Pandit, in The Hindu Mind: Fundamentals of Hindu Religion and Philosophy for All Ages (1 January 2001), p.279
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.
— 1977 Ever Since Darwin.
During my tenure of power, myearnest wish has beento impress the people of this country with a belief that the legislature was animated bya sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice? Deprive me of power tomorrow, but you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives, from no desire to gratifyambition, or to attain any personal object.
— 1846 On the repeal of the Corn Laws, House of Commons, 15 May.
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.
frédéric chopin— Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger (1986)
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
ptolemy— Book I, sec. 1
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
pierre teilhard de chardin— On Christian Asceticism, p. 100
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
meher baba— "The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.
george mason— Letter to William Cabell (6 May 1783)
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.
vitruvius— De architectura (Translation: The Ten Books On Architecture), Book VII, Introduction, Sec. 1 (~ 15BC)
To attain Moksha while alive, the individual consciousness must become non-existent because then there is nothing left in the mind . Then, due to the attainment of Moksha, he becomes immersed forever in Pure Consciousness and the Liberated. One must live out his Dharma for the sake of others.
— Swami Harinanda, in Yoga and The Portal, p.344
According to one tradition, Muhammad insisted that “without the mercy of God no one can attain salvation by virtue of his action.
— Quran, in "Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (01-Aug-2002)", p.128
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
— As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68
God hath, at all times and under all conditions, been wholly independent of His creatures. He hath cherished and will ever cherish the desire that all men may attain His gardens of Paradise with utmost love, that no one should sadden another, not even for a moment, and that all should dwell within His cradle of protection and security until the Day of Resurrection which marketh the dayspring of the Revelation of Him Whom God will make manifest.
báb— VI, 16 (The Persian Bayán)
Beware lest ye suffer one another to be wrapt in veils by reason of the disputes which may, during your night, arise among you as a result of the problems ye encounter or in consideration of such matters as your loftiness or lowliness, your nearness or remoteness.Thus have We firmly exhorted you — a befitting exhortation indeed — that haply ye may cleave tenaciously unto it and attain thereby salvation on the Day of Resurrection.
báb— XVI, 19
Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.(whoever mentioned this link,Please understand the context)
rahul gandhi— YouTube video
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.
yukio mishima— Runaway Horses (1969), as translated by Michael Gallagher (1973)
Nor deem the irrevocable Past,As wholly wasted, wholly vain,If, rising on its wrecks, at lastTo something nobler we attain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ladder of St. Augustine
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
dora russell— In The Religion of the Machine Age (1983)
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.
john dewey— Some Social Aspects of the Question
The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
ramakrishna— p. 153 (Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960))
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
john wesley— From the Preface to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists, (c 1779). New edition edition (30 Aug 1990), Abingdon Press, U.S. ISBN 978-0687462186.
May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
— Quoted in "Johannes Tauler: Sermons" translated by MariaMay God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhoodShardy
It is sheer nonsense to expect that any human being has yet been able to attain such insight into the problems of society that he can really identify the central problems and determine how they should be solved. The systems in which we live are far too complicated as yet for our intellectual powers and technology to understand.
— C. West Churchman (1968) The Systems Approach p.x
Under the flowing robes of nature, where all looks arbitrary and accidental, there is an artificiality of the most rigid kind. The natural, we now perceive, sinks into and merges in a Higher Artificial. ...we conclude, when we attain a knowledge of the artificiality which is at the basis of nature, that nature is wholly the production of a Being resembling, but infinitely greater than ourselves.
— p.250 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
You cannot attain to righteousness unless you spend out of what you love. And what you spend, Allah surely knows it.
— 91 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
