"All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction."

-- Maureen Duffy

#People Quotes #Labels Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.”
“It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.”
“Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive,”

Source : "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.
“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”
“Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.”
“The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You're only as good as your last book.”
“Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.”

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