‘Ultimately, achieving something positive in life – leaving darkness behind and discovering the light – is about wisdom, the wisdom that comes from surviving experience.’
Category: Quote Of The Week
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‘I have to speak up, because if I speak up, someone might hear. And perhaps they will think twice about the way they approach the next situation they find themselves in, or they will speak up when they see an injustice towards another human being. It’s always a great impetus to believe in what you believe and try to embody that. It’s that incredible phase, be the change you want to see.’
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‘Strugglers are worth more emotionally than achievers. I really admire strugglers. I have empathy for them, people who are trying to make a change rather than sitting on the laurels of victory.’
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‘Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.’
from ‘The Great Divorce‘ – C.S Lewis
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‘We obey the landowners creed. If it’s attractive, you shoot it, if it’s ugly, you marry it.’
from Darkest Day – Christopher Fowler
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‘Artistic people are often born in adversity and thrive on pain.’
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‘When one walks on the wire, it is a question of balance, of confidence in yourself. But the wire is like life. It is the line of life. If you stick on the right path, there is nothing to fear. For me, it is that fundamental, to have conviction, to stay true to oneself.’
–Didier Pasquette – High Wire Walker, from ‘The Society Of Timid Souls‘ by Polly Morland
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‘It’s not gluttony but anxiety that puts on the kilos.’
–Gerard Depardieu, from biography, ‘Depardieu‘ by Marianne Gray.
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‘At the end of 1968 there were a lot of great electric guitar players in the room- a lot of chances to get discouraged and put your guitar down. But that kind of reaction is the ego talking. Whether your reaction is to stick out your chest, or to run and hide-superiority or instant inferiority-either one is full of shit. You’re supposed to be you.’
–Carlos Santana, from his autobiography, ‘The Universal Tone‘
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