"Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape."

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Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

Mark Heard

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“The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes, or social position. The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions. ... Part of what it means to be a Latter-day Saint is to know within your soul your eternal worth, who you really are, and why you are here on earth.”
“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now Iâ€™m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isnâ€™t real at all.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.194, Pan Macmillan
“In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.”
“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”
“You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.”
“Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.”
“Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". On Farrah Fawcett's death, www.imdb.com.
“My pen.â€™ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. â€˜The torchâ€™, â€˜the paperâ€™, but â€˜my penâ€™. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. Itâ€™s about the most important thing I own.”

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