"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Death Quotes

“I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.”
“An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.”

Source : "Read Ingredient Labels" by Tichina Arnold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.
“Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 24, 2016
“I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.”
“Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.”
“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”
“Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life”
“When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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