Alexandra David-Neel Quotes

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

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• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

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• It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

  

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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

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• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

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• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
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• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
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• The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • House
  • Random
  • Wednesday

• Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Know
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• If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • You
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• Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • King
  • Forget

• I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Freedom
  • Afraid
  • Fantasy

• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
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• I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Experience

• Je weiter ich lebe, desto nötiger scheint es mir, auszuhalten, das ganze Diktat des Daseins bis zum Schluss nachzuschreiben; denn es möchte sein, dass erst der letzte Satz jenes kleine, vielleicht unscheinbare Wort enthält, durch welches alles mühsam Erlernte und Unbegriffene sich gegen einen herrlichen Sinn hinüberkehrt.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Party
  • Italian

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Career
  • Small
  • Sea

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Start

• Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • Souls