Caroline Myss Quotes
I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.
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I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.
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I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
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I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
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I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.
