"Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven."

-- Angel Olsen

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Singing Quotes

“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.”
“I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.”
“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.”
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”

Source : "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.”
“Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?”

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