"If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician."

-- Charlie Haden

#Humility Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage â€“ all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I donâ€™t want to mess up, [be]cause sheâ€™s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.”
“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
“This is a very fickle and faithless generation.”
“It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.”
“If you're uncomfortable with your financial advisor, it's probably with good reason.”
“For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”
“Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.”
“Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.”

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