"They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up."

-- Lenny Kravitz

#Thinking Quotes #Serious Quotes #Clown Quotes

“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.”
“It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (1993). “Inspector Wexford”
“Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.”
“But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
“I try to use pain as fuel for my work.”
“... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.”

Source : Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”
“The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.”
“When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.”

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press

You may also like:

Alexander Ludwig
Actor
Jason Momoa
Actor
Katy Perry
Recording Artist
Lisa Bonet
Actress
Prince
Singer-songwriter
Slash
Musician
Vanessa Paradis
Singer
Willow Shields
Film actress
Zoe Kravitz
Actress