Abraham J. Twerski Quotes
Happiness is self fulfillment. If a person neglects fulfilling any capacity or trait that he has, there is an inherent feeling of unhappiness.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
-
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
-
'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
-
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
-
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
-
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
-
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
-
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
-
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
-
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
-
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
-
I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
-
I regret all of my books.
-
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
-
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
-
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
-
My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
-
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
-
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
-
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
-
Happiness is self fulfillment. If a person neglects fulfilling any capacity or trait that he has, there is an inherent feeling of unhappiness.
