Shakoor Quotes & Sayings

What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy — Oshetha Shakoor

And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advice all the good-looking woman of my acquaintance not to die. — Susanna Clarke

Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear. — Louise Smith

Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us. — O Shakoor

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. — Willie Nelson

Despite my lack of sophistication or maturity, I was headstrong. My sense of possibility and certainty made me focused. I had blinders on. I was a sprinter--there were no long-term goals, I just knew I'd run as hard as I could in any situation. I'd learned that as an adolescent, to keep moving, to not be dragged down. The best word to describe it is "scrappy." I still feel that way today. Put me in a situation and I will find my way out of it or through it, I will hustle and scramble. I hate losing. Only later do I think about how it looks from the outside, and then I get stuck in a cycle of shame or anxiety--but in the moment, I rare could see beyond it, I really could fight. I didn't think much about how it looked from the outside, or how I looked. — Carrie Brownstein

Every role that I play is a gift and is something that I approach differently. — Jesse Johnson