James Allen Quotes

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

James Allen

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• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Different
  • Country

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Live
  • Know
  • Acting

• If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Good
  • Love
  • Feeling

• One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Nervous
  • Admit

• We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Accept
  • Germany
  • Apply

• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Problem

• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Happy
  • Without
  • Be Happy

• A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Car

• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Different
  • Control
  • Best

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Distance

• I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Best
  • Like
  • Movies

• In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • May
  • Free
  • Space

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Band
  • Forever

• I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

  

  Chico Hamilton
  • Music

• Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Poetry
  • Creativity
  • Search

• Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Education

• Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

  

  James Allen