"Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose."

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Source : "Michael Franti – On Stage and on the Mat" by Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. November 6, 2011.

Michael Franti

#Powerful Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”
“Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.”

Source : Pablo Amaringo (2014). “Ayahuasca Visions”, CreateSpace
“A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.”
“Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while”
“Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.”
“If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.”
“I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don't know. And if you don't know - and you don't - just man up and say you don't know. Don't turn to silly stories and ancient myths.”
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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