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  • Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 08, 2013
  • The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

    Toni Morrison's Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 2004, web.wellesley.edu. 2004.
  • Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

  • As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

    Positivity   Blue   Color  
  • If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

  • Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

    Elude Us   Scary   Secret  
    Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books
  • To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

  • The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

    Cat   Humor   Facts  
  • And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  • The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

    Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
  • Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

    Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.17, Vintage
  • But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

  • The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

    Elude Us   Creative   Ego  
  • Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

    Return   Elude   Given  
    John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.273, Templeton Foundation Press
  • If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

    Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage
  • Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

  • One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  • The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

    Art   Player   Perfect  
    Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited
  • I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.

    Mean   Tyrants   Likes  
    "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.
  • It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

    Time   Memories   Past  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing
  • It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

    Men   Feelings   Might  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.432
  • If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

    Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.260, Ballantine Books
  • The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others.

    Fate   Creating   Long  
  • The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

    "An Introduction to Mathematics" by Alfred North Whitehead, Ch. 1, 1911.
  • We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

    Elude Us   Joy   Purpose  
  • An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

    "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
  • Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

    Women   Long   Elude  
    Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.311, Delphi Classics
  • The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.

  • If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

  • Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

    Running   Bored   Elude  
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