"For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being."

-- Pablo Casals

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Follow your gut and your heart. You'll almost always make the right choice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from May 21, 2012
“I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.”
“Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.”
“If I had to just play 200 shows a year with the same set, there'd be a gun. In my mouth. With bullets in it.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.”
“I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.”
“For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.”

Source : "Decade: Sofia Coppola on 'Lost in Translation'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. December 14, 2009.
“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117

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