Crucial Quotes - Page 31

• Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Freedom, Creativity

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Gratitude, Responsibility, Development

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• ... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened." pg 100 Meredith to Vlad

  Heather Brewer

  People, Mad, Forgiving

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• I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.

  Richelle Mead

  Track, Perfect, Goal

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.158, Penguin

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• Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

  Tana French

  Cutting, Sacrifice, May

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  What Matters, Ideas, Needs

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Fighting, People

  "The Bell Jar".

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• Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

  Jared Diamond

  Reflection, Two, Long

  "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.

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• It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Important, Stories

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• If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

  Neal Shusterman

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Thinking, Keys

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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• Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

  Annie Dillard

  Keys, Sea, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.92, Canongate Books

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• Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.

  Emily Giffin

  Love Is, Life Is, Love Your Life

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• This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. “Are you a virgin?

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Lines, Firsts

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

  Hannah Arendt

  Vocabulary, Language, Grammar

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• One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.  Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […].  Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy—and this is the crucial point—into the concrete distress of human existence.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Philosophy, Care, Likes

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• It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Psychology, Clients

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Balance, Neurosis

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (1999). “Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche”, p.234, Shambhala Publications

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• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Persistence, Anchors

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.26, Random House

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• You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

  Hillman Curtis

  Believe, Design, Elements

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• Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

  Mark Rubinstein

  Block, Ideas, Listening

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• She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eye, Views, Water

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• If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Nice, Lying, Book

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

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