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Zen is not interested in high-flown statements it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
Anne Bancroft
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Anne Bancroft
Age: 73 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 17
Died: 2005
Died: June 5
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For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
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... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.
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The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.
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If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
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Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
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Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
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I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
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There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
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I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy
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Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
Anne Bancroft
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Anne Bancroft
So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
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The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.
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I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
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