"I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble."

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Jens Lekman

#Song Quotes #Married Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”
“Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.”
“It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.”

Source : "Allegories of the Sacred Laws". Book I, §2. Translated by C. D. Yonge in "The works of Philo Judaeus", Vol. 1, pp. 52 - 53, 1854.
“This means the world to me That you guys are here celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can't express it enough.”
“Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.”

Source : John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics
“I'm very wary of trust, you see.”
“You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.”
“When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'”

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