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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
Related topics: Wisdom
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho
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
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
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.
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
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
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
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 is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own 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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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