David Bezmozgis Quotes
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart.
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We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
