Josh McDowell Quotes
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.
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I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.
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No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
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All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".
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Never trust a skinny ice cream man.
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The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.
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Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
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Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.
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When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."
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I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
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I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
