E.L. James Quotes
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.
I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.
The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.
Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
I think the macho mystique was far more a guiding principle in our Dad's generation than ours, the 'strong silent type' was much more common.
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.
I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.
No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.
Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.
I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.
Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.