"You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for."

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Source : "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.

Janis Joplin

#Settling Quotes

“I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones — by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.”
“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.”
“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.”
“The jazz musician's function is to feel.”
“If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.”
“When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky”
“Constant repetition carries conviction.”
“I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.”

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