Let him who would move the world, first move himself.

—Socrates

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

—Harriet Rubin

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

—Winston Churchill

your body is your body

your mind is your mind

your heart is your heart

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

—William P. Merrill

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create—so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

—Pearl S. Buck

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

—James A. Garfield

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No one else can ever be you.

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Stay *alive*

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let us not beg for the stilling of the pain
but for the heart to conquer it.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Sexy is never apologizing for who you are.
Sexy is giving without any strings.
Sexy is taking the time to sink yourself all the way into the other's experience.
Sexy is knowing what you don't know.
Sexy is turning every challenge into a moment of evolution, every obstacle into a path.
Sexy is total surrender to right here, right now.

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> Want you to know how much I love you. How deeply, and how truly. I love you-always
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Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

—Henry David Thoreau