"The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared."

-- Benjamin Clementine

#Writing Quotes #Independent Quotes #Men Quotes

“I like boring things.”
“The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.”

Source : John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
“I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like”
“Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”
“Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.”

Source : "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.
“I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)”

Source : Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.103, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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