Brennan Manning Quotes
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
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The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
