Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Listen to people's stories and they all could be entitled 'Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now' The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.
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For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
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The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
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Listen to people's stories and they all could be entitled 'Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now' The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.
