David Steindl-Rast Quotes
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read,'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at largeDown in the meadow, where is richer feed,And will not mind to hit their proper targe.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
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As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
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I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
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My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
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For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
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All writers are vampires.
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Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.
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The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.
