"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."

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Source : "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#Patience Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Ego Quotes

“To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.”
“I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.”

Source : "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.
“I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.”
“No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.”
“I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.”
“Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know that music. I'm going to go audition." I ended up being in it and I sang and it was mind-altering - to me, to my parents, who had never heard me sing like that. It put a stop to everything else that I was doing - every sport that I played, every instrument, it was all dropped because nothing felt like that. I feel really lucky that I found my passion at that point. There are people who are adults who don't know what their passion is and go through life doing "a job."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”

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