Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).
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We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.
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By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
