"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it"

-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Important Quotes

“You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.”
“God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.”
“Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.”
“If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?”
“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”
“Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.”

Source : Peter Schjeldahl (2008). “Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker”
“We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever”
“The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.”

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