"Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly."

-- Beatrice Wood

#Important Quotes #Culture Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.”
“Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.”
“You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.”
“Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.”
“Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.”
“I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.”
“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press
“Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.”

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