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1187 German Quotes

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death Laugh Live Lives
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Strong Cat Forces Itself
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Almost Born Buried Genius
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

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

Identify Many People Problems
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eventually Expectation Find Future
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Always Form Grateful Matter
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Living Moment Really You
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

God Jesus Realized Son
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Death Disappears Fear Live
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Awaken Forgiven Going People
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
Universe You
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Adventure Life Package Tour
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Ever Focus Life
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Against Always Life Moment
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Blaming Cannot Complaining Discontent
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Dimension Gratitude Life Moment
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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