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Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.
I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
I have photo shoots or commercials that I do, or things in India. It's usually a seven-day week for me. So physically it does get exhausting.
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.
If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.
Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.
It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."
Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.