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.
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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.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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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.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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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.
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And yet it moves.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.
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You are either visual or you're not.
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I can't stand that asshole Ryan Seacrest and here's why. He can't sing. He can't dance. He has no talent. When is he gonna go away?
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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
