"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be…" — Leonard Cohen

"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day."

— Leonard Cohen

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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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More Chaos Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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