Thomas Keating Quotes
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?
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Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
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I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.
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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
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The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
