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Tag Name "Refraining" (8)

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Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
Dalai Lama
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Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.
Jack Kornfield
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
Dogen
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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
Laozi
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For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada al Sadr
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous Huxley
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During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
Joshua Harris
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If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
Marcel Proust