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“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.”

Ifs Knows Might Happiness Life Is Buddhism Asking Asking Why

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”

Knows Men Want Life Doe Lasts Forever Greed Average This Life Average Man Greediness

Author:Anatole France

“Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness”

People Knows Humans Real Happiness Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Ecstasy Real Happiness Deep Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly”

Knows Mean Doe Happiness Buddhism Ridiculous Jealous Being Jealous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.”

Knows Happiness Know How Buddhism Unhappy Dependent Make You Happy How To Be Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.”

People Knows Trying Humans Dream Nature Human Beings Buddhism Distracted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.”

Knows Doe Moving Existence Pieces Buddhism Moved Sexuality Chess Boards Squares New Directions Chess Pieces

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.”

Thinking Knows States Able Pain Wonderful Awareness Buddhism Sexuality Limitation I've Learned Testing Wonderful Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.”

Knows Play Next Health Buddhism Including Unpredictable Fluid Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

Ifs Knows Self Play Moments Home Running Perfect Honest Health Buddhism Involved Connections Critical Being There Athletics Home Run Critical Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.”

Knows Men Want Writing Wells Energy Hell Sticks Addict

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.”

Knows Way Writing Fantasy Dwelling Psychiatrist Phobia

Author:Charles Beaumont

“I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?”

Knows Long Lasts Albums Just Realized

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?”

Knows Want House Difficult Studios Gears

Author:Jeff Lynne

“When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.”

Knows Kind Littles Stills Song Bits Week Stage Little Bit Worn

Author:Jeff Lynne

“You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.”

Author:Jenifer Lewis

“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.”

People Knows Trying Years Stories America Faces Talking Gone Couple Terrible Right Now Dilemma Through The Years

Author:Joan Lunden

“For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Reason Can Do Think Of Me

Author:John Landis

“If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'”

Ifs Knows Said Would Be Talking Crazy One Day Congress

Author:John Lewis

“But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.”

Author:John Lurie

“I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Purpose Deny

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.”

Knows Facts Subjects Dabbling

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.”

Knows Home Nice London Familiar

Author:Jude Law

“You never know how your work is going to be received.”

Author:Julian Lennon

“I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?”

Thinking Knows World Feelings Feet Right Now

Author:Kelly Lynch

“I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.”

Knows Years Stills Together Found Years Ago Vices Quitting Nine Smoke Smoking Pregnant Chips Potatoes I Quit Nine Years Quit Smoking Were Pregnant Potato Chips Chardonnay

Author:Jean Smart

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Hard Care Principles Economy Economic Hard Truths Specifics Doctoring Tender Loving Care

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.”

People Knows Want Needs Actors Unique

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.”

Knows Years Enough Childhood Chaos Dealing With It

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!”

Ifs Knows Enough Together Wonder Married Girlfriend Smallest Back When

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.”

People Knows Wells Done Character Kids Levels Rooms Darkness Comedy Complexes Relate Complexity De Niro Complex Characters Believability

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.”

Knows Different Girl Names Hearing Scream

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“What you know not now you will know hereafter.”

Knows Hereafter

Book:Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

“The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House,' so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.”

Knows Feels Kids House Speak Interesting Know Me Talk To Me Full House

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“Any free meal is a good meal, you know?”

Knows Meals Good Meals

Author:Joe Sakic

“You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.”

Knows Knowing Blow Ice Skating Skates

Author:Joe Sakic

“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”

Knows Firsts Persons Two Enjoy Minutes Orchestra Rehearsal

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.”

Knows Video Reaching Mtv

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.”

People Thinking Knows World Believe War Ends Beautiful Cities Car Areas War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Berlin Detroit Really Beautiful

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Parent Know How Type Treated Time Of Your Life

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”

Knows Mean Ballots Nuisance Oracles

Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“You only know what you know.”

Author:Loretta Swit

“I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.”

People Knows Believe

Author:Maggie Smith

“There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.”

Knows Moments Things In Life

Author:Marat Safin

“I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.”

Knows World Problem Artist Asks Know How Duty Politician Solve

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.”

Knows Relation China Russia Chinese Soviet

Author:Matt Stone