"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."

-- Morrie Schwartz

“Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.”
“Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.”
“I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.”
“That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.”
“We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.”
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.16, Applewood Books
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.”
“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25

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