Thomas Keating Quotes
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
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'We atheists can . . . argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse'.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
