Canto Xii Quotes & Sayings

Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education. — Mary Hatwood Futrell

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days. — Joshua Bell

Fate helps those who help themselves;
God helps those who help others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best. — Charles Koch

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes. — Chris Prentiss

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them. — Lina Wertmuller

Spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well. — Dion Fortune

A noble deed is a step towards heaven. — J.G. Holland

It's not over until I (you) win. — Les Brown

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity. — Jewel

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles. — Wayne Gretzky

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious. — Caroline Knapp

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. — George Michael

World is a multi-dimensional reality. At lower level it is full with unconsciousness and competitiveness. At higher level it is full with beauty, bliss and divinity. Focus on higher dimensions. — Amit Ray