Charles Eisenstein Quotes

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

Charles Eisenstein

• Hurt
• Intimacy
• Hungry

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• It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Story
  • Honor

• Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Better
  • Especially
  • Spaces

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • True
  • Fear

• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Important
  • Religious

• The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Evil

• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Humble

• I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

  

  Charice Pempengco

• One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

  

  James Comey
  • Help

• I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Emotional

• I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Words
  • Tired

• My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Church
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Music

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Relax

• My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

  

  Becky G
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Makeup

• I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Born
  • Talent
  • Songwriting

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Hurt
  • Intimacy
  • Hungry