What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Related The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We are what we are. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. PEGGY TONEY HORTON "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu... SIMCHA GLUCK The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo... GARTH RISK HALLBERG If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God&... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know l... BLAISE PASCAL It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God... TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'... ST. TERESA OF AVILA When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. MARGE PIERCY We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates a... JIM RENACCI You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ROALD DAHL What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h... CLIFFORD COHEN We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives. CHELSEA CAIN What we don't know can't hurt us. JOHN SCALZI For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple... CRAIG GROESCHEL If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL secret of success - is to know urself
if we know ourselves ,we know what our desires are and how we ... TIGER YUVRAJ Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we ... JOHN J. EMERICK We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. MILDRED NEWMAN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to... CRAIG GROESCHEL Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. I... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit SUNDAY ADELAJA When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES We all have a darkness within us, it stems from our past. When we can forgive ourselves and not worr... DANIEL GILMAN We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. ERIC JEROME DICKEY Why do we, as women, accept the crumbs thrown our way when we know in our hearts that we deserve the... STACEY CHARTER I just cannot emphasize enough what a strike would mean to us because we would absolutely be walking... ALAN R. MULALLY What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnifice... DEBASISH MRIDHA When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he ... ANDREW LUCK We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only whe... A.J. DARKHOLME If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of... DANIEL TAMMET God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I... JOHN BYTHEWAY When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others b... PATTY HOUSER Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. MARCEL PROUST Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees MARCEL PROUST You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. SALLY GARDNER Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse... RACHEL JOYCE We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it ... NEL NODDINGS Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the... BURT WARD You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in f... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON What we fill up in our minds is what we get to drive on. ANIL GUPTA See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL If you go into the game thinking we are going to throw strikes every snap, we could drive ourselves ... JOE KINES What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop e... KEVIN ROLLINS Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We oft... SHEENA IYENGAR I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART We cannot wish for that we know not. VOLTAIRE Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a... DON MIGUEL RUIZ Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic... STEPHEN R. COVEY For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritu... GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch o... WAYNE DYER For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning. TOBA BETA We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using t... EVAN SUTTER You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attu... THOM MAYNE What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams... MARGARET ATWOOD Whether they realized it or not, they were doubting possibility, and the unknown. They believed I wo... SHREVE STOCKTON Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, o... GRACE GEALEY What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determi... GEORGE EASTMAN We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government ove... LARRY PAGE There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY
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BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ... BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc... RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte... BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur... RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve... BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou... RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet... BERTRAND RUSSELL The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi... RUSSELL LYNES Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea... BERTRAND RUSSELL