Malidoma Patrice Quotes

#1. Whenever I teach you always learn something. Some of the greatest things you learn, aren't always in books.

- Mr. Bucon

Brooke Alexander

#2. It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

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#3. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

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#4. Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

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#5. Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.

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#6. I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.

Jenim Dibie

#7. The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

Gerhard Tersteegen

#8. The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

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#9. Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity - the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom - and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

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#10. I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

Laz Alonso

#11. I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Helen Fielding

#12. A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen.

Marty Rubin

#13. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

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#14. When you're a bed wetter there's only one group of people you can feel better than, bed shitters, and unfortunately they're hard to come by.

Sarah Silverman

#15. You never know what the vodka will bring," I laughed.
"Oh, like the time you caught my hair on fire at the candlelight party in Mel's basement! That was the craziest thing that I ever had happen to me. If you hadn't switched to water, I would have been bald!"
-Cora, Nessa

Andrea Heltsley

#16. I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Eli Roth

#17. It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way."
"Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. ... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.

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#19. I've always had a very binge and then cleanse approach to casual sex for that very reason. We long for an intimate connection, but that longing makes us feel vulnerable. Therefore, we guard our hearts for self-preservation, which barricades that intimacy we are longing for.

Maggie Young

#20. One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
but the better request is,
'Teach me about what teaches you.'

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#21. Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success

Patrick Lencioni

#22. As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

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#23. Death was not eternal; Death was the only true mortal God ever created. It is no wonder we stare in horror at it ...

Ginger Garrett

#24. Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Anne Bronte

#25. The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

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