Bill Murray Quotes
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
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Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a “problem” when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as “solving” a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to “shift gear” into “Being” mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
