Martha Beck Quotes
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
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You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
