Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
Ramana Maharshi -
One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
Webb Simpson -
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
Nancy Pearcey -
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson -
Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
Adam Grant
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
T Bone Burnett -
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
Octavia E. Butler -
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye -
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
Idina Menzel
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
Callie Khouri -
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
Rabih Alameddine -
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Pamela Stephenson -
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
AJ McLean -
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
Xavier Niel -
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Os Guinness
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
Omar Bongo -
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.
Paolo Sorrentino -
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club -
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
Beverley Nichols -
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Jon Kabat-Zinn