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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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
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But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
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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.
