"You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be."

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Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

Russell Simmons

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“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
“I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.”
“I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.”
“With stillness comes the benediction of peaceâ€. â€œThinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.Â Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.Â This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.”
“Youth has no age.”
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
“In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.”
“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”

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