Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Elizabeth Lesser

• Meditation
• Wake Up
• Art Of Living

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• I know what to do and I go and execute.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
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• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
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• I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

  

  Kate Reardon
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  • Black
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• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  

  Jack Reed
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  • Design
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• The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Time
  • Best
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• I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Think
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• I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next Tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go 'who are you,' and you can say...'I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
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• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  

  Jared Polis

• I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

  

  Jared Polis
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• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Song
  • Essence
  • Wrappages

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Picasso

• The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Hate

• One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Meditation
  • Wake Up
  • Art Of Living