Shauna Waters

“Forgiveness is part of the treasure you need To craft your falcon wings And return   To your true realm of Divine freedom.”
― حافظ, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

“Nonsense,” Bridget said. “The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Recent breakthroughs in the field of neuro-science have shown that playing the piano is good for your brain. Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School spoke in 2009 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on the brain’s “plasticity”—its capacity to change—and announced that even nine- to eleven-year-old musicians show more brain activity than nonmusicians when performing tasks that require high levels of perceptual discrimination. Playing the piano, it turns out, is especially effective in enhancing skills in such important areas as pattern recognition and memory. To your health!”
― Stuart Isacoff, A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine