Charles Alexander Eastman Quotes

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Charles Alexander Eastman

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• Mind
• Perfect
• Balance
• Spirit
• Silence
• Equilibrium

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• I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Small

• What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?

  

  Narendra Modi

• My heart is warm with friends I make,  And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,  No matter where it's going.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Heart
  • Friends

• ...badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.

  

  Lauren Bacall

• Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Smile

• It's a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It's true. Jews do run Hollywood. It's a stereotype that many Jews are wealthy. Guess what? Many Jews are wealthy. And there's nothing objectionable in the image. What's unflattering about Jews rising out of oppression and poverty and making it to big success?

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • True
  • Success
  • Poverty

• I think family is so important.

  

  Jacqueline Emerson
  • Important
  • Family

• We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Integrity

• People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

  

  Lauren London
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Single

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wars
  • Pleasures
  • Delicate

• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Model

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Why
  • Balance

• We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  

  Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Perfect