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Quotes by Swedish Authors

"Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance."

"We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home."

"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all."

"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being."

"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."

"The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole."

"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."

"Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing."

"A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it."

"The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people."

"Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life."


"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."

"The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth."

"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."

"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."

"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."

"The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people."

"We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance."

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun."

"If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never happens.One becomes afraid of love, because love opens the inner emptiness.Love is not an effort. If love is an effort, it is not love.It is the same case with the ultimate experience, it happens when you do not make an effort. Then you can simply float with the river to the Ocean."

"Try as a meditation, to be with a stone, a flower or a tree, and you will find that they have consciousness. If you become friend with a tree, you will find that the tree will welcome you as a friend. The tree will be happy to see you."

"Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer yourself, wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer life. Wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer death, which is the basic fear in the West."

"Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience."

"When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything."

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

"To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living."

"I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European."

"Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched."

"You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that."

"What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices."

"Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another person into our presence, love, joy, acceptance, humor, understanding, playfulness, meditation and silence. Healing can also be a loving word, an understanding glance, a present touch, a silent listening or simply joking with another person and making him or her happy. Humor is also one of the strongest healing powers to see our situation and ourselves in a new and creative light."

"You think I'm gorgeous?"When I look at you, all I can think about are the the different ways I'd like to fuck you."So that's a yes then? she said shyly."No, darlin. It's an I-hope-you-weren't-planning-on-sleeping-alone-tonight."
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