Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
Quotes to Explore
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
