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“Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.”

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Tom Hanks, born on July 9, 1956, is an acclaimed American actor. Renowned for his versatile performances across various genres, from comedy to drama, from war films to science fiction, Hanks has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards. His acting career spans multiple mediums, including film, television, stage, and radio. more

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”

People Love Care Opinion Cease

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.”

Life Mind Solitude Goodness Regard Crowds Strikes Chiefs Divinity Complaints Avoiding Crave

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.”

Life Life Is Palaces

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.”

Enough Remember Law Lying Virtue Mankind Poet Simplicity Vices Indifference Thyself

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“All that is from the gods is full of Providence.”

Providence

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.”

World Should Would Be Lying Gentleman Conceit Pretence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.”

Film Directors Female Oscars Festivals One Woman Film Festivals Cannes Cannes Film Festival

Author:Salma Hayek

“I consist of a little body and a soul.”

Littles Soul Body

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.”

Men May Use Happens Certain Cases All Things Constitution Praise Worthy Harm Accidents Affected