Eckhart Tolle Quotes
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.
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I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.
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I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.
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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
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The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.
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You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
