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“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers”
― Joyce Brothers

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines thru the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies”
― Abdul'l'-Baha

“My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.”
― Abdul-Baha

“Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self. ”
― Bahá'u'lláh, The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh Vol.3: 'Akká: The Early Years: 1868-77

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
― William James

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
― Francis Bacon

“we are the ones we have been waiting for”
― Alice Walker

“There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
― Alice Walker

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.”
― Abdul-Baha

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.”
― Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

“That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”
― Baha'u'llah; Abdul-Baha; Shogi Effendi

“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
― Abdul'-Baha

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
― Coco Chanel