Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey -
I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
Natasha Tsakos -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
A. Scott Berg
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
Ian Axel -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
Aaron Neville -
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
Taron Egerton -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson -
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
Victoria Principal -
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
Omar Khayyam -
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
Ulrich Beck -
His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
John Steinbeck -
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
William Blake -
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
Marianne Williamson