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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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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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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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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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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Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.
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How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
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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.
