Seems Quotes - Page 35

• Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Challenges, World

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• One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. And I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me.

  Karen Finney

  Party, Men, Thinking

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• All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

  Andre Maurois

  Discipline, Routine, Needs

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.126, SpiralPress

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• My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Self, Healthy

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.187, John Wiley & Sons

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• Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

  Brian Houston

  May, Silent, Absent

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• By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Trials, Favors

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.134, Sounds True

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• I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Children, Sleep, Hair

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.240, Crown Archetype

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• A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

  Beth Moore

  Crush, Hurt, Pain

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• Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Men, Quests, Worthy

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given.

  Ron Atchison

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Choices

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• If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, World, Sticks

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• If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Superstitions, Too Much

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.298, Ballantine Books

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• How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Christian, Soap Bubbles

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• I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

  Patrick Swayze

  Beautiful, Keys, Going Away

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• Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Travel, Rude

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

  John Berger

  Struggle, Achievement, Landscape

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• It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

  Michel Odent

  Emotional, Roles, Care

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• Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Bothering You, Mind, World

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• People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.

  Jessica Zafra

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, What If, Patterns

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• Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

  Jessica Zafra

  Love Is, Doe, Assuming

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• There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

  Mack Sennett

  Beautiful, Girl, Perfect

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• Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Waste, Unusual, Ambiguous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.45, Random House

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• Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Regret, Character, Defining

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