"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

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Source : Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

Pat Conroy

#Music Quotes #Journey Quotes #Desert Quotes

“Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Hemans, “The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers In New England”
“Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.”
“So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.”
“Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.”
“At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.”
“One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”
“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 07, 2015
“There is an old Indian saying, "When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness." Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.”

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