Sarah Vowell Quotes
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
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I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
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We are a plague on the Earth.
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
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I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not being this unattainable thing. I think doing sports and riding motorcycles has made me more approachable and more real and down to earth.
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You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.
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The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
