Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Adam Grant -
Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter -
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
Hanif Kureishi -
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy -
I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
Abraham Verghese -
Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
Karen Salmansohn
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan -
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
Patrick Swayze -
I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
Patrick Swayze -
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
Sam Kean -
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
Olivier Theyskens
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
Rain -
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eric Lynn Wright -
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
Kate Thompson
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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt -
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
Viola Davis -
You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.
Loretta Lynch -
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill -
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau