Bob Parr Quotes
No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.
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You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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That is when they become most vulnerable -- when they are on the run -- because they can't plan, they can't coordinate, they can't rehearse, and if you constantly keep them on the run, you can whittle them down instead of them whittling you down.
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You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.
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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
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There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate fulfillment.
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Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.
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But there she was, sobbing for Yolie, and he wondered why some people stayed soft no matter what happened to them.
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I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.
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No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
