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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen
to the B Minor Mass?  ~Michael Torke

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not
bother trying to say it in music.  ~Gustav Mahler

“So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to
have, you better try to get it now, ’cause this is the only
time there is.”

– Della Reese

“Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor.”

– African proverb

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we
are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily,
marvelously who we were born to be.”

– Anne Lamott

“Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word
spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the
formation of character.”

– Hosea Ballou

“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner
peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and
outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.”

– Peace Pilgrim

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”

– Charles C. Noble