Ethan Hawke Quotes
Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
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Foxy knows of him. (Flint's) mother still teaches here, so he's around. He goes to the games and works out in the gym. He's around all the kids.
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It's just kind of inspiring. It teaches you that little jobs like being a veterinarian can help a lot of people.
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Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
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The burned hand teaches best.
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
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I was less angry at Carl Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.
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Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.
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Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
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If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
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Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.
