"There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Differences Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”
“The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.”
“Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.”
“My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?”
“I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.”
“Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
“Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?”

Source : John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.222, Shambhala Publications
“If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.”

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