Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.
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I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
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I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.
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Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
