#resist

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#meant-to-be #purpose #resistance #soul #spirit

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#distraction #resistance #art

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#gratification #resistance #art

She wanted to walk into a crowded restaurant where a man would look up and take her into his arms with his eyes. She wanted to know what it was like to feel that she was beautiful to someone and had been eagerly waited for ↗

— J.R. Ward

#beauty

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ↗

— Akhenaton

#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.) ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #courage #enemies #fathers #humour

People don't resist change. They resist being changed. ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#resistance #change

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. ↗

— Jim Norton

#forgiveness #leaderless #molotov #noremorse #resistance