quotes about music and the soul

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. ~Polish Proverb



I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849



Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb



I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. ~Robert Hugh Benson



What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. ~Brendan Francis



Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. ~Author Unknown



Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi



The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown



I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown



When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack



I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. ~Carl Jung



Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~Andre Dubus



The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey



Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge



The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. ~Morris Mandel



The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ~Grey Livingston



I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. ~George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell



The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton



You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown



No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today. ~Terri Guillemets