Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
No man should be angry with what is true.
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly’.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.