"And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves."

-- Smokey Robinson

#Song Quotes #People Quotes

“You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.”
“You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.447, Canongate Books
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.”

Source : "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.”
“You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.”
“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”
“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.”
“Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.”

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