Caroline Myss Quotes
While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.
Quotes to Explore
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
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It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.
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Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
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They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.
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Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.
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My family was always really encouraging, but acting was always something I thought was a bit of a pipe dream.
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History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.
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While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.
