"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy."

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

#Music Quotes #Heart Quotes #Moral Quotes

“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.”

Source : "The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975". Book by Gough Whitlam, 1985.
“I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet the clamor in our minds and the voices of everyone around us and move toward what feels right â€“ toward the things we know, for reasons we canâ€™t explain, that weâ€™re mean to do, the things that makes us feel alive.”

Source : Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.9, Harper Collins
“I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.”
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.”
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 16, 2014
“You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.”
“Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.”
“Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.”

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