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– “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninov

– “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski

– “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!” – Thomas Carlyle

– “If the King loves music, it is well with the land.” – Mencius

– “Without music life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

– “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” – Gustav Mahler

– “Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?” – Michael Torke

– “He who sings scares away his woes.” – Cervantes

– “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

– “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “Music is what feelings sound like.” – Unknown

Adolescence Quotes

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– “Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.” – Granville Stanley Hall

– “Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.” – G. Stanley Hall

– “Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.” – Carol Burnett

– “Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.” – Terri Apter

– “Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.” – Louise J. Kaplan

– “Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.” – Mary Pipher

– “Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.” – Jena Malone

– “Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.” – Louise J. Kaplan

– “Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.” – Louise J. Kaplan

– “Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.” – Harold Bloom

– “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.” – Coco Chanel

– “Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.” – Ron Taffel

– “Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.” – David Elkind

– “Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.” – Joe Baca

– “Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.” – Rex Stout

– “I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.” – Harold Brodkey

– “I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn’t want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.” – Maya Lin

– “I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.” – Robert Cormier

– “I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.” – Stanislav Grof

– “I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.” – Uma Thurman

Will Quotes

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– “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha

– “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

– “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha

– “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

– “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha

– “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha

– “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha

– “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe

– “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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– “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
– “Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.”
– “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
– “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
– “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”

– “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”

– “I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”

– “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”

– “Ideas shape the course of history.”

– “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”

– “In the long run we are all dead.”

– “It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”

– “It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”

– “Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”

– “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”

– “Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”

– “Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”

– “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”

– “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

Movies Quotes

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– “A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” – Stanley Kubrick

– “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” – Jean Cocteau

– “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” – Orson Welles

– “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” – Alfred Hitchcock

– “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” – Alfred Hitchcock

– “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard

– “A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” – Samuel Goldwyn

– “Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” – Mary Pickford

– “And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.” – Douglas Sirk

– “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” – Martin Scorsese

– “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard

– “Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” – Pauline Kael

– “Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.” – Federico Fellini

– “Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert

– “Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.” – Sydney Pollack

– “Everybody’s a filmmaker today.” – John Milius

– “Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a «bus movie.»” – Sandra Bullock

– “Everything makes me nervous – except making films.” – Elizabeth Taylor

– “Film lovers are sick people.” – Francois Truffaut

– “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” – Jim Morrison

Never Give Up Quotes

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Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. – Sidney Sheldon

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. – Zig Ziglar

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win. – Vince Lombardi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. – Anonymous

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right. – Henry Ford

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore

Work Quotes

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– “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

– “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp

– “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb

– “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert

– “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

– “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

– “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty

– “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

– “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

– “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

– “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner

– “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

– “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

Quotes about Friends

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– “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

– “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings

– “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew

– “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying

– “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

– “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

– “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb

– “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha

– “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” – Unknown

– “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet

– “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)

– “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold

– “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)

– “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert