Quotes to ponder

“I am the master of my fate;
 I am the captain of my soul.
~William Ernest Henley

“My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more.”
~From The Sound of Music by Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers

“Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to
Don’t try to see through the distances.
Move within
But never move the way fear makes you move.”
~Rumi

“If you are lucky enough to be different,
Don’t ever change.”
~Taylor Swift

“I can see the beauty in the distance and
I want to dance,
I want to dance,
You’ve given me the chance.”
~From the song  Everything is Possible by D. Spangler, C. Gore

“The tender words we said to one another
Are stored in the secret heart of heaven
One day like rain, they will fall and spread
And our mystery will grow green over the world.”
~Rumi

“You must never quit on your music.
No matter what happens, Cuz anytime something bad happens to you,
That’s the one place you can escape to and just let go.”
~From the movie August Rush

“Shed no tears for me, light no candle for my sake
This journey I am making now, is one we all must make
Shoulder to the wind, I’ll turn my face into the spray
And when the heaven’s open, lets the drops fall where they may!”
~From Children of Eden, S.Schwartz

“I can always be distracted by love,
But eventually I get horney for my creativity.”
~Gilda Radner

“Angels can fly, because they take themselves lightly.”
~Rumi

“Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you’ll land
among the stars.”
~Unknown

“Forget about what other people think.
If you paint a purple cow leaping over
a rainbow moon, shout “Oh Happy Day!”
You found the magic in the artistic way.”
~Elizabeth Theodore

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
~Gandhi

“Anything you lose comes around in a different form”
~Rumi

“The music is all around us,
All you have to do is listen.”
~From the movie August Rush

“Don’t let the past dictate who you are.
Instead let it be part of, who you will become.”
~From the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding

“It’s in the click of my heels, the bend of my hair
The palm of my hand, the need for my care.
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally,
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.”
~Maya Angelou

“Feel yourself being quietly drawn
By the deeper pull
of what you truly love.”
~Rumi

“Strength derives from the insights we obtain
when we are most vulnerable –
It is only then, that the walls come down
and the soul radiates through-
With honesty and impassioned abandonment -
Our art can truly soar.”
~Renee Katz

“Perhaps you feel too much and
maybe that’s a crime,
Perhaps you pray too much
and there isn’t any shrine.”
~From Jacques Brel is Alive and Well

“Two strong impulses: One,
to drink long and deep,
the other,
not to sober up too soon.”
~Rumi

“…but I swear someday I’ll be up in the sky
defying gravity, flying so high, defying gravity
they’ll never pull me down.”
~From the show Wicked, S.Schwartz

“You were alone, I got you to sing.
You were quiet, I made you tell long stories.
No one knew who you were,
But they do now.”
~Rumi

“There are eyes you fall right into
Where the loving never ends
And we recognize these people
As the treasures we call friends.”
~Fran Landesman

“Don’t worry about saving these songs.
And if one of our instruments breaks
it doesn’t matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere.
And even if the whole world’s harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of
your chest and let the spirits fly,
in and out.”
~Rumi