Veronique Vienne Quotes

#1. To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

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#2. Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

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#3. In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

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#4. The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

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#5. Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on earth. In our day and age, there are only two ways to get free of money worries: either accumulate wealth, lots of it, or move to Paris.

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#6. The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.

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#7. The things one wants the most, are not things after all.

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#8. Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!

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#9. Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis, March 2006, p73]

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#10. Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

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