Abraham J. Twerski Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The earth shall be left to no one.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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The concept of The 'Most Beautiful Moment in Life', that was chapter one for us; it feels like that because we were starting from the bottom, but on this concept, 'Love Yourself', we started to talk about some brighter things, like the real things in life.
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In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
