Eckhart Tolle Quotes
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
Quotes to Explore
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I like being unconventional.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
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When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.
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As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
