Ekekeu Quotes & Sayings

If other people do not understand our behavior - so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself - to his reason and his conscience - and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. — Erich Fromm

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. — Victor Hugo

When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence. — Sunday Adelaja

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying ... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. — Ivan Illich

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life. — Ashraf Barhom

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it. — Aaron Eckhart

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale. — Peter Fonda

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl. — Shelby Lynne

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. — A.R. Ammons

She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world. — Jean Nathan

And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? — Donna Tartt

Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment. — Max Beerbohm

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time. — Jason Aldean