Charles Eisenstein Quotes

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

Charles Eisenstein

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• Familiar

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
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• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
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• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Baseball

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Father
  • Stage

• My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Father
  • Husband

• Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

  

  Rand Paul
  • High
  • Reality
  • Rich

• I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Want
  • Feel

• What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • God
  • Lost

• Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Life
  • She
  • Cold

• You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

  

  Steve Zahn
  • Money
  • Actors
  • Explosives

• I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Music
  • Long
  • True

• I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Up
  • World
  • Pretty

• The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Hope
  • Interesting

• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Desire
  • Killing