"I don't want to be anything other than me."

--

Source : Song: I Don't Want To Be, Album: Chariot, 2003

Gavin DeGraw

#Philosophy Quotes #Want Quotes

“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”
“Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga...it's about trusting that you will find your way.”
“He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
“I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.”

Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”
“While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.”
“Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.”

You may also like:

Andy Grammer
Singer-songwriter
Billy Joel
Pianist
Colbie Caillat
Singer-songwriter
Gavin Rossdale
Musician
John Mayer
Musical Artist
LeAnn Rimes
Singer
Ryan Tedder
Singer-songwriter
Sara Evans
Singer-songwriter
Shania Twain
Singer-songwriter