"My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created."

-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Purpose Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.”
“The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.”

Source : "Secrets of the Magus" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. April 5, 1993.
“Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.”
“Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.”
“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.”
“There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.”
“His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.”
“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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