C. L. R. James Quotes

Follow your heart and be true to yourself. Never live the life of another. You have to create your own road.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.

I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic is a medium. I do that occasionally but my specialty is spiritual pasts.

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.

It's very important to instill values in children.

The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.

Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.