Eckhart Tolle Quotes
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
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I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.
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We must listen to poets.
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Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
