Brennan Manning Quotes

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

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• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Health
  • Same
  • Neighbors

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Life
  • Style

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• And yet it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Moves

• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Travel

• We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • May
  • Risk

• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Why
  • Service

• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Dog

• Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Feeling
  • Joy
  • Progress

• Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Happiness

• I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Parents
  • Freedom

• This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth...

  

  Ezra Heywood
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Democratic

• Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Freedom
  • Opinions