Alexander Lowen Quotes
Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word 'school' - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning 'leisure.'
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Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
