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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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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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
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I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.
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My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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No single person designed the whole Taj Mahal complex. The buildings were the work of many people – architects, engineers, artists, calligraphers, and Shah Jahan himself.
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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.
