"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight."

-- Ram Dass

#Identity Quotes #Costumes Quotes #Reassuring Quotes

“It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.”
“There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.”
“If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.”
“Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.”
“I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.”
“Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.”
“Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.”
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

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