"When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again."

-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#Gratitude Quotes #War Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.”

Source : Brené Brown (2011). “불완전함의 선물”, Cheongha/ Tsai Fong Books
“Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.”
“We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.”

Source : James Kirkup (1996). “An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences”
“I don't typically drink coffee.”
“I just wanna kind of give the world something special.”
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.”
“Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)”

Source : "A passel of recent mentions". Citizendium.org blog, May 01, 2008.
“God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.”

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