"Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live."

-- Ray Brown

#Jazz Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.”
“I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.”
“It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.”
“Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.75, Cosimo Classics
“Virginity is something that can be offered to God.”
“The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“This isnï¿½t about them. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her! - sam uley”
“I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.”

Source : "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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