Dr Naomi Remen Quotes & Sayings

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation. — Deepak Chopra

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps. — Phil LaMarr

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them. — Samuel West

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. — Nina Easton

Children are so precious. — Shayne Ward

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously. — Danica Patrick

There's only two types of manager. Those who've been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future — Howard Wilkinson

The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Skeleton: We have wisdom, if you like - a dull and dusty wisdom, and I would give it all for a good draught of Chian wine.4 Perchance 'tis something to know that bodies are made of dust and water, the last of which is evaporable, and the former capable of dissolvement. For this is all our knowledge, in spite of much that is known and spoken of hierophant and philosopher. However, unlike the lore and wisdom of these, it may be contained without discommodation by one skull. — Clark Ashton Smith

You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve. — Jeff Foxworthy

Tikkun Olam. There is a Jewish legend behind this notion. Sometime early in the life of the world, something happened to shatter the light of the universe into countless pieces. They lodged as sparks inside every part of the creation. The highest human calling is to look for this original light from where we sit, to point to it and gather it up and in so doing to repair the world. This can sound like an idealistic and fanciful tale. But Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who told it to me as her Hasidic grandfather told it to her, calls it an important and empowering story for our time. It insists that each one of us, flawed and inadequate as we may feel, has exactly what's needed to help repair the part of the world that we can see and touch. — Krista Tippett

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous. — Rajneesh

When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels ... — Rosamund Lupton

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity. — Patricia Hill Collins

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection. — Criss Jami