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

• World
• Desire
• Killing
• 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

• 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
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• 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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• 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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• 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

• 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
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• It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Passion

• Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Athlete

• What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • People
  • Nasty

• Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

  

  Emo Philips
  • Good
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• If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
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• I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
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• I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

  

  Allison Janney

• Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Past
  • Technology
  • Leadership

• I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.

  

  Offset Migos
  • Opportunity
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• The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann

• Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Difficult
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• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
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• You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

  

  Katy Evans
  • Different
  • Song
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• 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