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Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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