Dimitri

“Theorists see in existent forms something given, whereas in reality something so resistant as a given…which one can grasp complete in itself, never has been or will be given [in music]. Rather, musical form is something coming-into-being [Entstehendes] (to say something come-into-being [Enstandenes] may already be incorrect), at every time newly coming into being, and never except in the finished artwork itself something at hand, that can be transmitted and further utilized.42”
― Janet Schmalfeldt, In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music

“28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?”
― Epictetus, The Enchiridion

“When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.”
― Epictetus, The Enchiridion

“With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them.”
― Epictetus, The Enchiridion