Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

Eckhart Tolle

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Eckhart Tolle

Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary.

Eckhart Tolle

Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment.

Eckhart Tolle

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

Eckhart Tolle

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Eckhart Tolle

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Eckhart Tolle

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Eckhart Tolle

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Eckhart Tolle

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Eckhart Tolle

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Elias Koteas

I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

Elie Saab

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

Elie Saab

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

Elijah Wood

I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

Elijah Wood

I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.

Elijah Wood

I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

Elijah Wood

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Elif Safak

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

Elie Wiesel

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

Elie Wiesel

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

Elie Wiesel

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

Elie Wiesel

Think higher, feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

Elie Wiesel

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.