Allowing Quotes - Page 24

• I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

  Brittany Murphy

  Thinking, Keys, People

  Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 2003.

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  Ezra Miller

  Running, Personality, Return

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• Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

  Joyce Meyer

  Education, Competition, Levels

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• If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

  Jaron Lanier

  Musical, Mind, Body

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Believe, Humility

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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. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

  Anne Carson

  Liars, Lying, Mean

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Struggle, Losing Control

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.124, Penguin

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• They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Simple, Identity, Fiber

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• Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Mean

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• Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Pain, Sacrifice, Self

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• This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

  Sarah Dessen

  Waiting, Over You, Finishing

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Horse, Children, Memories

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• The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Strong, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, School, Risk

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• I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

  Nicole Kidman

  Struggle, Thinking, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 17, 2016

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• Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Sacred, Made, Should

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• I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

  Benjamin Carson

  Gay, Long, People

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• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson, 2012.

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Grief, Anger

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• In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

  Joe Baca

  Government, Track, Borders

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• Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

  Charles Babbage

  Fall, Weight, Arise

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.9

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• True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Mirrors, Up To You

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