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Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
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Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Silence gives consent.
- Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- 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
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
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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
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
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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.
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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 is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
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 silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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 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
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
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
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I set today's life-rhythm with my heart-drum.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Today is my day to paint in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with my heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as my celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
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