Shangyin Music School Quotes & Sayings

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. — Jim Beaver

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest. — Marcel Wanders

She's a mess of gorgeous chaos. — Kristen Proby

To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes. — Hale Irwin

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. — Mortimer J. Adler

And you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day. — Sam Altman

The Low Church rectors, in the main, struggle with poor congregations, born to the faith but deficient in buying power. As bank accounts increase the fear of the devil diminishes, and there arises a sense of beauty. This sense of beauty, in its practical effects, is identical with the work of the Paulist Fathers. — H.L. Mencken

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To be alive at all is to have scars. — John Steinbeck

I love being creative. — Joanna Noelle Levesque

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope — David Levithan