Asks Quote by Sam Keen Download Open image “What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.” — Sam Keen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asks Favourite Life Our lives Refuse Shapes Thinking Truth Seeking
Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Questions permeate every aspect of our world and our life. Life is all about questions. If you stop asking, you stop living.” — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“When compared to eternal verities, most of the questions and concerns of daily living are really rather trivial. What should we have for dinner?… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are no answers to life's questions. Accepting the things we cannot change without question, shows a strength of character that few posses. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Life is filled with questions, many of which dont have an obvious or immediate answer. But its your willingness to ask these questions, and… — JSV Copy Share Image
“Life is no more than a series of questions, Our experiences are but the manifestation of how and in what order we attempt to… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When… — Sam Keen Copy Share
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded… — Sam Keen Copy Share
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share