"Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to."

-- Gordon Parks

#Legends Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Consuming Quotes

“My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As this homecoming fills you with in expressible joy it pervades Allah Most High with profound delight as well (You will) experience the perfect union with Love that is My highest Paradise.”
“Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.”
“I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.”
“Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.”
“I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.”
“I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.”
“There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.”
“We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.”

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