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"Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do."
"One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow."
"Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed."
"I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better."
"I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time."
"If you want peace, you won't get it with violence."
"you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me"."
"At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine."
"Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!"
"I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever."
"I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks."
"I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to."
"And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass."
"I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others."
"The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that."
"You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!"
"If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it."
"I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time."
"I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!"
"Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me."
