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!
Quotes to Explore
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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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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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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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I definitely want to embrace the relationships I have with the people I love.
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God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
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I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
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Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
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Oh my baby's coming home tomorrow. Ain't that good news, man, ain't that news? Baby's coming home tomorrow, ain't that news, man, ain't that news?
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
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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!
