Thomas Keating Quotes
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
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I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.
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If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
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It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'
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The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
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I can feel my body is starting to get tired, all that training, which I've been doing three or four times a week since I was eight, and recovery is taking longer.
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
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I will never cheat in any walk of life.
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The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.
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Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
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He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.
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Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
