Bob Parr Quotes
No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
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My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
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No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
