"Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living."

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Source : FaceBook post by Alex Ebert from Sep 16, 2013

Alex Ebert

#Cinema Quotes #Opera Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.”

Source : William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.43, Amadeus Press
“Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.”
“My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.”
“We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”
“Be kind to an old man.”
“The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine”
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

Source : "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.
“One partner is always more in love than the other.”

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