Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
