"The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone."

-- Rumi

#Strong Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Wind Quotes

“My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.”
“We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.”
“Itâ€™s one thing to have guts; itâ€™s another to be crazy.”
“I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.”
“When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.”

Source : On not being Dead, as Reported
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
“It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.”

Source : Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein (2002). “Donald Judd: 1955-1968”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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