Make Friends With Ourselves

“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”

-Unknown

Art Is Never Finished

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

Music Cleanses The Understanding

"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."

-Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone Becomes A Poet

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

-Plato

Music Is Love

“Music is love in search of a word.”

-Sidonie Gabrielle

Make Your Life A Mission

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."

-Arnold Glasgow

Together We Can Do Something Wonderful

“What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”

-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

What We Leave Behind

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."

- Anatole France

Kiss Me

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”

-Sylvia Plath

Kindness Is A Language

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”

-Mark Twain

Stand Up For Your Right To Feel Pain

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

-Jim Morrison

The Key Is To Develop Inner Peace

“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.”

-Dalai Lama

I Escape, One Way Or Another. No More Walls

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

-Anais Nin 

Art Is Everywhere

"Great art is a doorway to the divine. Art, in this context-both its creation and contemplation-is a vehicle for discovering our full potential, the divinity within us."

-Romio Shrestha

Temporary Detour

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

-Denis Waitley 

So That We See Ourselves As We Really Are

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

-Arthur Golden 

The Beast In Me

“The beast in me

Is caged by frail and fragile bars”

-Johnny Cash

The Key That Sets My Mind Free

"My brain is the key that sets my mind free."

 -Harry Houdini

Fragile Truths

“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings”

-Gerard Depardieu

Love Is All You Need

"Love is all you need."

-Lennon/McCartney