January 2012
1 post
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Galileo Galilei
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
October 2011
1 post
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via skeletales)
April 2011
1 post
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"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream...
March 2011
2 posts
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“A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that...”
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (via litglutton)
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February 2011
4 posts
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“The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows naught.”
– Blaise Pascal (via quote-book)
(Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait pas.)
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“The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via quote-book)
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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August 2010
3 posts
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Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
June 2010
2 posts
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Fair Weather - Dorothy Parker
This level reach of blue is not my sea;
Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
Whose quiet ripples meet obediently
A marked and measured line, one after one.
This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves
Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.
I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
So let a love beat over me again,
Loosing its million...
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April 2010
3 posts
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“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The...”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart...”
– Virginia Woolf (via sometimesagreatnotion)
March 2010
21 posts
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“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter...”
– George Carlin
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“Today like yesterday
Tomorrow like today;
The drip, drip, drip,
Of monotony...”
– Langston Hughes
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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concertate the mind on the...”
– Buddha
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“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
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“Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?”
– Percy Shelley
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“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges”
– Benny Green
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“There is no truer truth obtainable, by Man than comes of music”
– Robert Browning
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends”
– Alphonse de Lamartine
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“Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets...”
– Ezra Pound
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“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am...”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is...”
– Edward Elgar
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“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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“There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing...”
– Lord Byron
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“Music is what feelings sound like”
– unknown
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my...”
– Maya Angelou “Gather Together in My Name”
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“He who sings scares away his woes”
– Cervantes
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“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on...”
– Leopold Stokowski
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Critic as an Artist)
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“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the...”
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
February 2010
2 posts
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise...”
– Thomas Szasz
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
January 2010
2 posts
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“If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your...”
– A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind...”
– Dr. Seuss
December 2009
1 post
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“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld...”
– Auld Lang Syne — Robert Burns
November 2009
15 posts
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“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in...”
– Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever — Robert Burns
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“Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I’ll sing...”
– Sweet Afton — Robert Burns
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“O Thou, the first, the greatest friend
Of all the human race!
Whose strong...”
– The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified — Robert Burns
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“The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy...”
– Winter: A Dirge — Robert Burns
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and...”
– Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All...”
– Jabberwocky, from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alive Found There — Lewis Carroll
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“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you...”
– 1984, George Orwell