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"I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words."
"You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper."
"The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy."
"I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties."
"The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far."
"A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. In order to find God, you have to only to look around."
"I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them."
"I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it."
"Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world."
"In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves."
"There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music."
"Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive."
"Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption."
"Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate."
"It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done."
"Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that."
"I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything."
"A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society"
"The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"Never order food in excess of your body weight."
