Quotes of Jean Genet

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I'm homosexual… How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

- Jean Genet

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“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George