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God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices. -- Teresa of Avila
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. -- Charles Kendall Adams
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. -- Octave Mirbeau
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development. -- Victor Ponta
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. -- Guru Nanak
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. -- Thomas Carlyle
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. -- Ernest Renan
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. -- John Ruskin
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. -- George Pierce Baker
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all. -- Jan Hus
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. -- Colin Powell
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. -- Charles Kendall Adams
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid. -- Girija Vyas
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. -- Eric Hoffer
All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for. -- Teresa of Avila
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life. -- Andrew Lang
birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ... -- Margaret Sanger
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. -- Laozi
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. -- Paul Cezanne
He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness -- Shri Radhe Maa
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom. -- Swami Vivekananda
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. -- William Morris
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. -- Oscar Wilde
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. -- Samuel Johnson
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. -- Baron de Montesquieu
True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God. -- William Temple
It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good -- Swami Vivekananda
Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer. -- Evagrius Ponticus
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. -- Constantin Brancusi
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life -- Haile Selassie
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. -- Khalil Gibran
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. -- Teresa of Avila
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. -- Charles Grandison Finney
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man. -- Anita Loos
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. -- Gautama Buddha
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. -- Thomas Huxley
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all. -- Heraclitus
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. ["¦] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. -- Jim Thompson
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently. -- Nicholas of Cusa
[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting. -- Julio Cortazar
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. -- Teresa of Avila
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. -- Muhammad Ali
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. -- Bill Watterson
An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end. -- Dorothy Wordsworth
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. -- Robert Graves
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. -- Euripides
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. -- Andrew Lang
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it. -- Antonin Artaud
Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it. -- Ivan Goncharov
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. -- Matsuo Basho
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. -- Gautama Buddha
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies. -- William Benton Clulow
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty. -- Saint Augustine
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us -- Friedrich Nietzsche
According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power. -- Stephen Richards
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. -- George Pierce Baker
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. -- Thomas a Kempis
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state. -- James Joyce
What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening. -- Sarada Devi
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. -- Hermann Nothnagel
It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. -- John Calvin
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes. -- Felix Marti-Ibanez
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community. -- Corliss Lamont
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. -- Anton Chekhov
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good. -- Alexander Pope
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building. -- Chanakya
The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength. -- Jorg Immendorff
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. -- Adi Shankara

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