Jade Bird Quotes

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.