If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
Interpretation
This quote suggests that if something causes extreme distress or suffering, it is inherently flawed or wrong.
Frank Ocean's quote reflects a critical viewpoint on belief systems or ideologies that lead to pain and suffering. It emphasizes that any doctrine or faith that brings a person to a state of despair is not worthy of following, encouraging individuals to evaluate the impact of their beliefs on their well-being and happiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about toxic ideologies at a philosophy club.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.
The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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