Marianne Williamson Quotes
Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as the first step, holding that the other forms will cease to run riot as before and will be restrained by having learnt that their senior and as it were the leader of their company is obedient to the laws of temperance.
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
