"The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable."

-- Tom Waits

#Impact Quotes #Tree Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Aug 06, 2014
“Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1995). “Passion Profit & Power”
“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
“Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."”
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
“I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.”
“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”

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