Eckhart Tolle Quotes

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Eckhart Tolle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: February 16, 1948

Topics

CoffeeWaitingOpportunitiesThinking

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Jim Barksdale

TruthFeelPointTelling The Truth

The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.

Jill Stein

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Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget.

Robert Kagan

BudgetSecurityKindOutSystem

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Max Heindel

PositiveQualitySufferingStand

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Sol LeWitt

TimeArtThinkToo MuchKnowWant

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Simone Weil

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I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Tom Paulin

LifeGoodJobThinkFeelYou

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Louise Penny

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My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Lisa Jakub

LifeChildGrowFallChoiceStop

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

Dominick Cruz

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Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

Dhani Harrison

GreatPeopleWeirdYouOutBlend

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

David Shields

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