Effortless Quotes - Page 3

• What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
  Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Spontaneous, Strive

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• To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

  Johnny Weir

  Elements, Skating, Looks

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• At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Beautiful, War, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.379, Random House

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• Life as a Divine Creator is effortless. You don't have to do things to make them happen; you call forth people, situations, and events from an inner decision of being.

  Melanie

  People, Decision, Events

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• Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

  Jack Lemmon

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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• What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Effort, Looks

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• Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Friend, Essence, Long

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• Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Buffets, Rationality

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

  Heidi Klum

  Clothes, Personality, Trying

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• If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Grace

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

  Mike Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Talking

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• When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Running, Feet, Flying

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Being Yourself, Style, Together

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• I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

  Bob Dylan

  Damn, Awe, Can Do

  "Bob Dylan on Old America and 'Modern Times'". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

  Natalie Portman

  Girl, Thinking, Wish

  "Natalie Portman: 'Miss Dior'". www.sneakpeek.ca. August 21, 2017.

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe

  Natsuki Takaya

  Your Side, Sides, Ifs

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• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, People, Dancing

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• Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
  in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
  By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
  we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Real, Heart, Meditation

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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”

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• Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Memories, Balance, Stories

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• Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

  Stanley Clarke

  Play, People, Giving

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• Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should still feel.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Children, Stress, Moving

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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