Thomas Keating Quotes
What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
