Elly Kleinman Quotes

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Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”
Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Groucho Marx
“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx

Thich Nhat Hanh
“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Dr. Seuss
“Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Thich Nhat Hanh
“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

Thich Nhat Hanh
“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Albert Einstein
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

Emily Brontë
“In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Mark Twain
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

Charlotte Brontë
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”
Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Victor Hugo
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Charlotte Brontë
“Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!”
Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Charlotte Brontë
“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

Apple Inc.
“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
Apple Inc., Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

Margaret Atwood
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

Eleanor Roosevelt
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Albert Einstein
“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta

Maya Angelou
“We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.”
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou
“He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.”
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Oscar Wilde
“One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.”
Oscar Wilde

Charlotte Brontë
“Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Margaret Atwood
“Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women?”
Margaret Atwood

“I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature kleinman person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy?”
M.J. O'Shea, Stuff My Stocking: M/M Romance Stories that are Nice and… Naughty

Paul Kleinman
“Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather)”
Paul Kleinman, Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More!

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