J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
Quotes to Explore
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
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I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
