You cannot open a book
without learning something.
-Counfucius

Just living is not enough.
One must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower.

Laugh as much as you breathe
and love as long as you live.

Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive,
and go do it. Because what the
world needs is people who have
come alive.

“To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure,
but risk must be taken because the greatest
hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Experience is the name every
one gives to their mistakes.”
-Oscar Wilde

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed,
than to not know and always wonder.

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow
the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to
warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for
your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe, confidence for when
you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to
accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Memory is a way of holding on to
the things you love, the things you
are, the things you never want to lose.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions
that can change your life forever.

The most important thing in life is to learn
how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
who calls you back when you hang up on him,
who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat,
or will stay awake just to watch you sleep...
wait for the boy who kisses your forehead,
who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats,
who holds your hand in front of his friends,
who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on.
One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.

The love that lasts the longest is
the love that is never returned.

Love is just a word until someone
comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is not blind; it simply enables
one to see things others fail to see.

Love is saying 'I feel differently'
instead of 'You're wrong.'

The worst thing you can do for love is
deny it; so when you find that special
someone, don't let anyone or anything
to get in your way.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in
noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and
deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt
you to believe that your critics are right. To map
out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is enough for a lifetime,
but a lifetime is not enough for music

Don't wait.
The time will never be just right.
 

Contemplation often makes life miserable.
We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Sometimes the people whom we've know
for only a short amount of time have a bigger
impact on us than those we've known forever.

In art the hand can never execute
anything higher than the heart can inspire
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the most intense mode of
individualism that the world has known.

There is one thing one has to have:
either a soul that is cheerful by nature,
or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

All art requires
courage.

Music is what
feelings sound like.

Music speaks what cannot be expressed,
soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals
the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.