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.

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Kings

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock
  • Rocks
  • Rock And Roll

• Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Deserve
  • Balls

• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree

• 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.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Game
  • Behavior
  • Violation

• 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.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Confucius
  • Glory
  • Received
  • Teachings

• There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Philosophical
  • Philosopher
  • Endure

• They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Remember
  • Run
  • Escape

• God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Joy

• There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Question
  • Survive
  • Authors

• A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Religion
  • Nothing
  • Suffers

• 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.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Term
  • Comfort