Thomas Keating Quotes
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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My father was not a musical man.
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I think of their anger as a wind. And that wind took them away. From me. And all the others like me.
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For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
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I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
