Huston Smith Quotes
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
Quotes to Explore
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
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I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
