Brennan Manning Quotes
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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I rarely think in words at all.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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Who can control his fate?
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I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.
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I have sold my soul. Just sign right here.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.
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It is important that women support each other. Most of us will at some point get married and have children, and how you balance that really depends on the quality of your friends and whether your friends are there for you. It also depends on what the policies are in your workplace.
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Pressure point! Pressure point!
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I believe in hard work and good decisions and the rest it will come or it doesn't.
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
