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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We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
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I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.
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In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
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I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
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A Roth 401(k) or a Roth IRA takes the uncertainty out of predicting the future.
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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.
