Stephen Levine Quotes

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Stephen Levine

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • House
  • Media

• When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Red
  • Loves
  • Cares

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Joy

• There are different flavours of sexiness.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different

• Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • She
  • Together

• I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Believe

• My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart

• My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Long
  • Parents

• When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Air

• Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

  

  William Sleator
  • People
  • Stories
  • Read

• If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • For Her
  • For Him

• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Suffering

• The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Suffering

• No matter what the problem is, it's a people problem.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Matter

• Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

  

  Stephen Levine
  • Suffering
  • Holding
  • Could Be