Stephen Levine Quotes
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
Hamza Yusuf -
People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
Maggie Smith -
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule -
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
Naima Adedapo -
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger -
In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
Ban Ki-moon -
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
Mallory Jansen -
A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
C. S. Lewis
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown -
He wos wery good to me, he wos!
Charles Dickens -
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
Isaac Asimov -
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
Linda Vester -
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
Cara Delevingne
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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
Drew Houston -
Journalists love to show their compassion.
Bernard Goldberg -
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
Banana Yoshimoto -
Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.
Stephen Levine