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I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year
for cheating on my metaphysics final ...
I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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