Tara Brach Quotes
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
Quotes to Explore
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I still have a young attitude.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.
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Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
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He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I am calledThe richest monarch in the Christian world;The sun in my dominion never sets.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
