Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?
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And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.
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For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.
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A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
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Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
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I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.
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It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
