Quotes of Jean Genet

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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

- Jean Genet

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“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

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

- Roy Bennett

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams