Stars Quotes - Page 34

• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Good Life, Moving, Choices

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• The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.

  Frank Vogel

  Player, Facts, Caliber

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• Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

  Zeena Schreck

  Long, Existence, Immortal

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• I don't want to be in front of the camera forever. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever. I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

  FKA twigs

  Sick, Forever, Cameras

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• Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

  Wesley Morris

  New Relationship, Black And White, Rights

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• Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Japan, People, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Our World, Sea

  "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.

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• Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Thinking, Moon, Green

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• It was never my dream to be famous. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.

  Denzel Washington

  Dream, Hard Work, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Years, House, Black

  Star Trek Database, www.startrek.com.

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• As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us in our celebration of the Savior’s birth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wise, Men, May

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• The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

  Plotinus

  Sky, Together, Events

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• When despair for the world grows in me...
  I come into the presence of still water.
  And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
  For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
  and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Light, Water, Waiting

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

  Frida Kahlo

  Knowing, Bird, Waiting

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• He turns not back who is bound to a star.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Quitting, Turns

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

  James Blunt

  Romantic, Running, Believe

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• The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

  Khalil

  Heart, Blow, Wind

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• Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’

  Khalil

  Dwelling, Space, Lines

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• The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Flower, Speak

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• Don't ever lose sight of your dreams. And, more importantly, reach for the stars.

  Debbi Fields

  Dream, Sight, Loses

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• A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Thinking, Fire

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• Submit to love without thinking,
  as the sun rose this morning
  recklessly extinguishing
  our star-candle minds.

  Rumi

  Morning, Thinking, Rose

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• Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.

  Alonzo King

  Ocean, Circles, Meaning Of Life

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• Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Storm, Courses, Navigate

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• We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Tree, Atoms, Pieces

  Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK

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