DeeDee Trotter quotes

DeeDee Trotter quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.”
-- DeeDee Trotter

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“My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.”
-- DeeDee Trotter

#Home Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Warrior Quotes

“Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.”
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

Source : Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company
“On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?”
“People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.”
“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?”
“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”
“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”
“The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.”

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