Peter Kingsley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.
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For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global extinctions. But always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding.
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Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.
-- Peter Kingsley
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a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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I have a pretty lousy voice.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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