Yieldedness Quotes & Sayings

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong. — Devon Aoki

Godly people ... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness. — Larry Crabb

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. — Charles Stanley

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire. — Jillian Michaels

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart. — Stephen Colbert

Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward. — John Updike

Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves. — Deepak Chopra

History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too? — Robert Harris

This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which are piled up goods that cannot satisfy: neither clothe those who are naked, nor feed those who are hungry; it is as impersonal as factory hangars and industrial cities in which manufactured things remain abstract, true with statistical truth and borne on the anonymous circuit of the economy, resulting from skilful planning decisions which cannot prevent, but prepare disasters. There it is, the mind in its masculine essence, living on the outside, exposed to the violent, blinding sun, to the trade winds that beat against it and beat it down, on a land without folds, rootless, solitary and wandering and thus already alienated by the very things which it caused to be produced and which remain untameable and hostile. — Emmanuel Levinas

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable. — Dorothy Osborne

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true. — Bob Gilluly

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case. — Theodor Adorno