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

• 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

• Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Beginning

• I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  

  Dermot Mulroney

• Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Food

• I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Bird
  • Stronger

• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

  

  Joseph Pilates
  • Peace
  • Physical
  • Wellbeing

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

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

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Freedom
  • Opinions