Stagnant Quotes
Stagnant Quote of the day
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.
It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
