"Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get……" — Dean Ornish
"Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special."
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40 Quotes by Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish has 40 quotes on this site.
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When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning…
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One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and…
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Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle,…
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Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health…
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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative…
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Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs…
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We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very…
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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and…
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Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time,…
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When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel…
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I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.
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Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.
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More Despair Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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