Esther Hicks Quotes

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

Esther Hicks

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• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

  Rain
  • Want
  • Rest
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Different
  • Way
  • Europe

• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Love
  • Chicago

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Tragedy
  • Heartache

• Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Running
  • Ignorance
  • Choice

• If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • World

• I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai

• I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

  

  Jasper Fforde

• I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Poetry

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Change
  • Attention
  • Consciousness