"One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom."

-- Franz Kafka

#Fighting Quotes #Bottom Quotes

“God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.”
“Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.”
“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.”
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
“The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.”
“Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.”
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
“Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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