Greetings Steemit,
I've always LOVED reading short & insightful quotations. Whether used as tiny bursts of inspiration in moment of sadness, or as a Mantra worth reflecting on for needed balanced insight, I find that the right quote in the right moment can be .. in a word.. powerful.
I've been collecting this list for some time - and decided to share it with the community in the hopes that maybe someone reading will find the above mentioned insight you may be looking for. Of course - these listings are not my original content, except for the one that is - so I hope you enjoy @Giftedgaia's favorite quotations about Life & Music.
Quotes on Life
"All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense."
-Robert Anton Wilson (PRAISE BOB!)
"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
-Rumi
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
-Kenji Miyazawa
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
-Carl Gustav Jung
"In knowing nothing, you will be aware of everything."
-Tao Te Ching
"There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes."
-Jelaluddin 'Rumi' Balkhi
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
-Oscar Wilde
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
-Mother Teresa
“Love is the Fire of Life; it either consumes or purifies”
-Unknown Author
“If I am dreaming let me never awake, If I am awake let me never sleep.”
-Chinese Proverb
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
-Aristotle
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
-Sally Koch
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.”
-Australian Aboriginal Proverb
“The mysteries of the seen and the unseen are all known, if the mind is kept centered and balanced.”
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”
-French Proverb
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: we taste only sacredness."
-Rumi
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
-Buddhist Proverb
“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.”
-Hans Bos
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”
-Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"Men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice."
-Aristotle
"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."
-Bo Bennett
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment."
-Lao Tzu
"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
-William Wordsworth
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
-Marleen Charles de Montesquieu
“If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.”
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
-Plato
"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."
-Unknown Author
"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
-Sir Isaac Newton
“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity”
-Francois Gautier
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
-Rumi
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."
-A. Powell Davies
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
-Aleister Crowley
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them”
-Chinese Proverb
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or we are awake, and talking to another in the waking state?"
-Plato
“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”
-Ram Das
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
-Rumi
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards: It makes them soggy and hard to light."
-Robert Anton Wilson
"When everything else falls apart and crumples away.... your will and soul is still there”
-Bradley Adam Henderson
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
-Douglas Adams
"My apartment is infested with koala bears. Its the cutest infestation ever. Much better than cockroaches. I turn the lights on and a bunch of koala bears scatter. I'm like, come back! I want to hold one of you, and feed you a leaf."
-Mitch Headberg
"I'm not 'Paranoid', I'm 'Prepareanoid'"
-Original @giftedgaia
Quotes on Music
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Aldous Huxley
"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless."
-Rumi
"Without music life would be a mistake"
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
-Berthold Auerbach
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
-Albert Einstein (When asked about his theory of relativity)
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music"
-Albert Einstein
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
-Maya Angelou
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Where words fail, music speaks."
-Hans Christian Andersen
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
-Gottfried Leibniz
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
-Anais Nin
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
-J. K. Rowling
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy"
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead"
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels"
-Thomas Carlyle
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music"
-Agnes de Mile
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without"
-Confucius
"Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows"
-Bill Hicks
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"
-Jimi Hendrix
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows"
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"If music be the food of love, play on"
-William Shakespeare
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is"
-William P. Merrill
“Music is what feelings sound like.”
-Unknown Author
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."
-Joseph Addison
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."
-Albert Schweitzer
"Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
-Ludwig van Beethoven
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-George Eliot
"Music is the poetry of the air."
-Jean Paul Richter
"Music's pure algebra of enchantment."
-Conrad Potter Aiken
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
-Martin Luther
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
-Billy Joel
"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
-Jonathan Edwards (author)
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-Beethoven
“Music is more logical than the human mind can comprehend: yet we can recognize it and surrender to it. We cannot comprehend music but music can comprehend us.”
-Peter Hiett
"Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines."
-Irving Berlin
“We are a spectacular manifestation of life. We have language…we have affection. We have genes for usefulness and usefulness is about as close to a ‘common goal’ of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.” - Lewis Thomas
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
-George Eliot
"Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best."
-Frank Zappa
“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
-Virgil Thomson
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-Angela Monet
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
-Robert Fripp
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."
-Robert G. Ingersoll
"Alas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them!"
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"All the sounds of the earth are like music."
-Oscar Hammerstein II
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
-Sir Thomas Beecham
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
-Lao Tzu
Cheers Steemit!