Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
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• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
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• I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Experience
  • Best
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• I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
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• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • May
  • Suffering

• Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Day
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  • Busy

• Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Meditation

• I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Meditation

• For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Morning
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• Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • Meditation

• Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Small
  • Courage
  • Develop

• I don't have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Game
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• I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • World
  • Prayer

• When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering
  • Meditation
  • Bother

• Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Meditation
  • Boat

• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Civilization

• To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Meditation
  • Develop
  • Pumping