Charles Eisenstein Quotes
The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.
Quotes to Explore
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.
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Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.
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Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.
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My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
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I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
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Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
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Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.
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And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't badSo I had one more for dessertThen I fumbled through my closet for my clothesAnd found my cleanest dirty shirt..
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I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
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Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
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And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.
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We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.
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The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.
