"The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing."

-- Josef Pieper

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“Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.”
“The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.”
“Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.”
“It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.”
“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
“Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.”
“A parallel between color and music can only be relative â€“ just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.”
“Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.”

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