94 Quotes About Resist

Resist the devil but rest on the Lord, the Divine being.

We haven’t talked since the café, and he’s dead wrong if he thinks I’m caving. I don’t care how many wicked smiles he flashes in my direction or how many times he “mistakenly” brushes his hand against my cheek or thigh. He can make my head spin and my blood run hot, but I’m strong enough to resist his every temptation.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....

Persistence wears down resistance.

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

Question everything—no matter how beloved, or how long-held, or how exalted—without apology. Only those who build their world upon lies need fear an inquisitive mind. The truth will remain, even after a storm of doubt and revolution has washed over it. Only illusions need be protected. The truth need not be defended; it existed before us and will continue to exist after us.

An ego devoted to fighting against all the world’s slurs is bound for trouble.

Poetry is what you turn to when nothing else works.

Not resisting is a superpower. Not resisting bad situations is a rare, but necessary quality. It's the other side of stress, anxiety, depression, fear. It is to find yourself in a beautiful natural state of being.