"Chaos is the penance for leisure."

-- Amy Tan

#Penance Quotes #Leisure Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'”
“Stand firm in that which you are.”
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”
“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”
“The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.”
“I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list. 'The Epilogue' is the perfect opportunity to release some great material to the fans and a proper final chapter for the Trill-ogy. Good music is timeless.”

Source : "Bun B Set to Release New Album 'The Epilogue' in November" by Edwin Ortiz, www.complex.com. October 5, 2013.
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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