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Welcome to these Startled Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
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
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
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
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
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
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
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
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
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
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
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
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
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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