Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Quotes
Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
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Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!
