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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist

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"Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes."

Self Suffering Patterns

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

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"My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another."

Mistake Principles Patterns

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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

Growing Up Television Patterns

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Morgan Freeman Actor, Narrator

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"When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern."

Growing Up Roles Patterns

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be."

Mind Patterns Live In The Moment

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author

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"We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution."

World Patterns Resolution

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Philip Ball Author, Science Communicator

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"What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing."

Thinking Patterns Stripes

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Elizabeth Taylor Actress

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"I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does."

Doe Waiting Patterns

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Anne Carson Poet

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"All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life."

Mean Two Patterns

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice, Jurist, Author

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"The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part."

Cutting Patterns Hypocrisy

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances."

Order Patterns Conformity

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease."

Might Patterns Conflict

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader

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"Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection."

Way Patterns Affection

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

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"You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment."

People Different Patterns

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons."

Mind Suffering Patterns

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

Patterns Agents Doing You

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author

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"It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are."

Self Understanding Patterns

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author

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"There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony."

Trying Alive Patterns

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker

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"There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought."

Matter Body Patterns

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker

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"You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience."

Ability Patterns Life Experience

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