"Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain."

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#Pain Quotes #Redneck Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.”
“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”

Source : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”
“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”

Source : "Killers of the Dream" by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.
“I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.”
“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces”
“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.35, Spectra
“Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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