Top 26 Unattained Quotes
#1. Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#2. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#3. With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
William Matthews
#4. In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#5. If There Be Sorrow
If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
unattained
to these add one:
Love withheld
... restrained
Mari Evans
#6. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
George Eliot
#7. Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it ...
Craig L. Rice
#9. Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained
Dan Brown
#10. Therefore, mobilize vigor to attain what is unattained, to master what is unmastered, to realize what is unrealized. In this way your taking to the spiritual life will not be barren, but fruitful and ever-growing. (Samyutta Nikaya II.29) How
Anonymous
#11. So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. There's a quote from the famous physicist Niels Bohr, who posits that the way you become an expert in a field is to make every mistake possible in that field.
Sebastian Gutierrez
#14. The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.
Natasha Leggero
#15. Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.
Kris Allen
#16. And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings ...
Dan Simmons
#17. You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
Adrian McKinty
#18. People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Zoe Marriott
#19. Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love
Kobayashi Issa
#20. Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.
Thomas Szasz
#21. I don't care if Facebook's valuation goes to one gillion. It can go so high we have to make up numbers. It is still not a bubble because there is still not another Facebook in the pipeline.
Sarah Lacy
#22. I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.
Francis Collins
#23. From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
Noam Chomsky
#24. I asked Isabelle whether she was happy. "I never ask myself, so I suppose the answer is yes." At all events she likes the moment of waking up. That seems to me a pretty good definition of happiness! It is the same with me: every morning, when I open my eyes, I smile.
Simone De Beauvoir
#25. She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden's body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She
Katy Regnery
