Marcelo Ledes

“Spend some time each day noting down your thoughts. Do not judge them; simply observe. Are they primarily negative?”
― Lois Frost, Borderline Personality Disorder: A Life-Changing Guide to Successfully Manage BPD, Protect Your Mental Health, and Cultivate Healthy Relationships

“In moments of struggle, it might help to say to yourself, “This is really hard for me right now. How can I comfort and care for myself at this moment?”
― Lois Frost, Borderline Personality Disorder: A Life-Changing Guide to Successfully Manage BPD, Protect Your Mental Health, and Cultivate Healthy Relationships

“Hence, when studying a new work, it is imperative that a tonal picture of perfect clarity should be prepared in the mind before the mechanical (or technical) practicing begins. In the earlier stages of cultivating this trait it will be best to ask the teacher to play the piece for us, and thus to help us in forming a correct tonal picture in our mind.”
― Josef Hofmann, Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered

“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother” (Matthew 12:50).”
― Andrew Murray, The Blessings of Obedience