Huston Smith Quotes
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
Quotes to Explore
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
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Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.
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Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.
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I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.
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We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry
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These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
