"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Greatness Quotes #Needs Quotes #Done Quotes

“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts”
“On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.”
“Knowing he was suffering pained me. Thatâ€™s the way love tangles you up. I couldnâ€™t stop loving him, and couldnâ€™t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for himâ€” but I also didnâ€™t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.304, Ballantine Books
“Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.”
“Doing is the evolution of saying.”
“I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.”
“I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.”

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”

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