Charles Eisenstein Quotes

I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.

Charles Eisenstein

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• Giving
• Generosity

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• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Different
  • Control
  • Privilege

• I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Like

• When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Attention
  • More
  • Skin

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Creative
  • Awesome

• Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Voice
  • Television

• You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Service

• Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Men
  • Done

• You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Believe
  • Black

• I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Alien

• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Work

• Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

  

  James Callaghan

• I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

  

  Alben W. Barkley
  • House

• I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Mind
  • Heart

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Generosity