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 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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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 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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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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Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
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I seem to be able to only see the positive things in life and the beautiful things in life and when I see, for instance, garbage or ugliness, then I turn my back or I seem to be able to skip it.
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I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
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I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
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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.
