Ben Lerner Quotes

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

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• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Disability

• No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• He seemed like a cool person to me. He sits by the benches with us while we are playing.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Cool
  • Playing
  • Benches

• I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Night
  • Change

• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Money
  • Transactions
  • Aggravation

• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hand
  • Poetry
  • Hands

• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Dog

• Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Practice

• A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Library

• In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Small

• I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Life
  • Imagine
  • Stronger

• The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  

  Socrates
  • Happiness
  • Enjoy
  • Secret

• In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

  

  Jules Verne
  • England
  • Countries
  • Phenomenon

• Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

  

  Umar
  • Mind
  • Inspiring
  • Enlightening

• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Funny
  • Inspiring
  • Substance

• The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Choices
  • Make
  • Ours

• The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Inspiring
  • Confuse