stubbornness

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself_yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." __abbi Joseph Karo (1488_1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

Wow_At least I can rest assured that you definitely can__ read my mind,_ I remarked. __learly you know nothing about me_because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff

You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness.

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

We focus on the reasons why we __an___ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we __an_.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before _ namely melt the ice in a wax figure__ beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.