Sam Keen Quotes

Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

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• Imperfection is perfection.

  

  Flume
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection

• I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Moment

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Think
  • Me
  • Water

• All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Religious

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

  

  Vanna White
  • World
  • Job
  • Know

• For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Better

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World

• Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.You know it doesn't seem fair,That I'm living for something I can't even define.And there you are right there, in the mean time.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. ... No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Business
  • True

• I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Action

• Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Interesting

• There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Women
  • Church
  • Bible

• I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

  

  John Templeton
  • Focus
  • Spiritual

• Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!

  

  Berton Braley
  • Job
  • Dreamer
  • Come True

• With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Serious
  • Actors
  • Interest

• Many of my patients have survived trauma through tremendous courage and persistence, only to get into the same kinds of trouble over and over again. Trauma has shut down their inner compass and robbed them of the imagination they need to create something better.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trouble
  • Create
  • Trauma

• Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

  

  Sam Keen