“I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes. I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 55 of 313
“When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...”
“I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.”
“What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.”
“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”
“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”
“The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.”
“The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]”
“I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.”
“A quick cure is a quack cure.”
“The development of the mind comes through movement”
“Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.”
“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
“That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.”
“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
“The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.”
“Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.”
“Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.”