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"I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak."
"Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing."
"The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."
"The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis."
"Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time."
"What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?"
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
"Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist."
"When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
"History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance."
"That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy."
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance."
"Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance."
"I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility."
"When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it."
"The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance."
"When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . ."
