Navel Quotes - Page 2

• Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

  Joel Salatin

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Football, Wall, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

  Orlando Bloom

  Philosophy, Tree, Sitting

  Details Magazine Interview, Volume 25, Issues 4-7, 2007 (p. 629), as quoted in "Ten Hollywood Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out About Their Religion", www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 30, 2015.

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• We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Moon, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• The man without a navel still lives in me.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, He Man, Still Life

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• As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.387, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Trying, Levels

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• I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it.

  Cody Wilson

  White, Identity, Hot

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Media, People, Selfless

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• No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mother, Men, Roots

  Wole Soyinka (1984). “Six Plays”, Methuen Drama

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• What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

  Linda Hunt

  Opposites, Lucky, Schwarzenegger

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• I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.

  David Foster Wallace

  Differences, Ships, Nipples

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• It could be anything. It could be Jesus and it could be the Furby and it could be the lint that lives in my navel, but it's probably not. Whatever it is, I doubt we as humans on Earth could have any perception of it while we're here. So, why give yourself a headache thinking about it. Just be a good person. That's what an ethicist is.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Heart, Buddhism

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• Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

  Truman Capote

  Views, Novelists, Toes

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• One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Two

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• In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

  Rainn Wilson

  Rocks, Self, Rock And Roll

  "Rainn Wilson Interview - THE ROCKER" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Play, Movement, Emotion

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Eyebrows, Lotuses

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.

  Melissa Febos

  Smart, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the late '90s, the time of pop stars and navel-dancing, where you were showing your midriff. I wanted to be a real singer.

  Duffy

  Stars, Real, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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