If you're smart or rich or lucky _x000D_ Maybe you'll beat the laws of man _x000D_ But the inner laws of spirit _x000D_ And the outer laws of nature _x000D_ No man can
Interpretation
True success comes from understanding and respecting both spiritual and natural laws rather than just personal achievement.
In this quote, Joni Mitchell emphasizes that while intelligence, wealth, or luck may allow someone to circumvent societal rules, they ultimately cannot escape the deeper laws that govern the spirit and the natural world. It suggests a recognition of accountability to universal principles that go beyond human constructs and urges a profound respect for the interconnectedness of existence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about the importance of integrity and respect for nature.
There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
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