Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
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For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.
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We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.
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There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.
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There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
