Wisdom Quote by Curtis Tyrone Jones — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If your caring for others is deeply hurting you, it’s not actually caring for others but self hatred disguised as selflessness. When you’re caring for people, make sure to begin with yourself.”

“It’s about showing up, not showing off. But sometimes just showing up as yourself will make other people think that you’re showing off. Show the fuck up anyway.”

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““You can't”

“Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.”

“There’s a thin line between letting something fuck you up and letting it free you up. You can let something fuck you up or you can let it free you up but you can’t do both. If you’re letting something fuck you up right now, you’re not letting it free you up and if you’re letting it free you up right now, you’re not letting it fuck you up. So which is it?”

“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.”

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”

“The Statue of Liberty on the East Coast should be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”