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Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency. Don Yaeger
afterlife judgment protect
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg
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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray
afterlife people over-you
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people. Bill Maher
afterlife soul gauges
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. Anton Chekhov
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt
afterlife profound funny-graduation
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. Art Buchwald
afterlife cannot hit life looking perfect pounds rather
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' Drew Barrymore
afterlife gold purses
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Adelbert von Chamisso
what-matters suffering world
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience. Cesare Pavese
what-matters discipline foolish
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity. Charlie Munger
what-matters matter action
In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter. David Horowitz
what-matters next matter
We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next. Isaac Marion
what-matters people alive
It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive. Bruce Willis
what-matters irrelevant
Above all, discard the irrelevant. Barbara Tuchman
what-matters empowering desire
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it. bell hooks
what-matters people common
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Baltasar Gracian
what-matters matter imaginative
What matters is the imaginative truth. Edna O'Brien
joys operating quickly radar screen time
One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily. Gail Kelly
joy ransom way
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity. C. S. Lewis
joy elements praise
Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
joy flying want
Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot. Cathy Rigby
joy sorrow divided
Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased. Bill Vaughan
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Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. William Shakespeare
joyful men poet
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see William Channing
joy
I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.
joy i-have-no-friends relation
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery