"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason"

-- Henry Fielding

#Riches Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.”
“The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.”
“You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.”
“If I was Simon Cowell for a day, Iâ€™d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Thenâ€¦pour ketchup on myself!”
“Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.”
“Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.”
“I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits. He said, "I've got a thing I'm stuck on." ï»¿I can hear the wind a blowin' - he already had that. You and me lord, we had it all. ï»¿He only had that first verse. For some reason he was stuck. But that's how that came about.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.
“Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.”

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