Ambrose of Optina Quotes
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
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Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
