"We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Disappointment Quotes #Joy Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213
“It is not permitted that we should know everything.”
“Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.”
“I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.”
“Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.”

Source : "Manhattan rhapsodies" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.”
“Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.”

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