"You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free"

--

Source : Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

Chris Rea

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Waste Quotes

“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”
“I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?”
“The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.”
“It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.”
“I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.”
“There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.”

Source : Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.
“One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.”
“Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.”

You may also like:

Bryan Adams
Singer-songwriter
Chris de Burgh
Singer-songwriter
Chris Isaak
Musician
Christina Aguilera
Singer
Elton John
Singer-songwriter
Joe Cocker
Singer
Leonard Cohen
Singer-songwriter
Phil Collins
Musician
Sting
Musician