Felix Mendelssohn Quote

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Plato

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

• Music
• Art

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

• Mind

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

Paulo Coelho

• Life

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

• Self-discovery

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

• Friendship

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

• Music

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

George Sand

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Annie Lennox

Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it, one as much as another. All things are dissolved to their center by their cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Mind
• Wisdom
• Present
• Sacred

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

God doesn't know things. He is things.

D. H. Lawrence

• God

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Joan of Arc

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

• Death
• Desire

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Patrick Swayze

• People