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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
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- 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
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An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- 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
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- 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
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
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.
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
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
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
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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
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
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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 and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
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.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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