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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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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.
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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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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
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
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- 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
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
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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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
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 expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
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
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
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
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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