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Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
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If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
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.
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
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
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
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
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- 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 can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
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
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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