I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Bob Dylan

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May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

growing-up light strong

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what. by Bob Dylan

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

be-prepared prepared knows

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses... by Bob Dylan

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

biting sunglasses lips

Don't criticize what you can't understand. by Bob Dylan

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

criticism education song

All I can do is be me, whoever that is. by Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

bullying purpose can-do

The purpose of art is to stop time. by Bob Dylan

The purpose of art is to stop time.

time life art

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. by Bob Dylan

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

sad pain beautiful

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big. by Bob Dylan

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

distance bigs looks

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. by Bob Dylan

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

hippie blow wind

Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

good-friend land believe

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside... by Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

died heart philosophy

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

understanding sometimes mean

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. by Bob Dylan

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

positive inspirational memories

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius. by Bob Dylan

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

i-believe genius believe

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

creativity keys imagination

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

motivational inspirational life

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come... by Bob Dylan

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

mind

There is nothing so stable as change. by Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

stable freedom

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient... by Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

music break-up life

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home... by Bob Dylan

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

home long way