A Quote by Vida Dutton Scudder

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Vida Dutton Scudder

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Abstention Element Enter Finer Joys Must Restraint

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Vida Dutton Scudder
American - Writer
December 15, 1861 - October 9, 1954

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

Nathaniel Altman

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

John Donne

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

Ken Cuccinelli

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

Joseph Hertz

The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

John Ruskin

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Swami Vivekananda

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Rick Reilly

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

J. C. Ryle

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.