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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
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"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will have"
— Edgar Watson Howe

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"Music is love in search of a word"
— Sidney Lanier

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"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought"
— E.Y. Harburg

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"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. "
— Marcel Marceau

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"I have 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

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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."
— Mary Kay Ash

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"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. "
— Oscar Wilde

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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Berthold Auerbach

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"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. "
— Henri Frederic Amiel

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
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"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
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"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."
— Henry Ford

tags: thinking
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"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
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"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
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"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
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"Try a little harder to be a little better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational
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"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
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"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
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"Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude."
— Gordon B. Hinkley

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"When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart."
— Gordon B. Hinkley

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"When an individual is motivatedby great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart"
— Gordon B. Hinkley

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"God is the designer of the family."
— Gordon B. Hinkley

tags: family
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