Tansys Quotes & Sayings

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music. — Robert Fripp

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? — Franz Kafka

The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is. — Rocky Bridges

Where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The ground was bare earth, beaten flat by the pressure of millions of feet, even though those feet had less weight than feathers; so it must have been time that pressed it flat, even though time had been stilled in this place; so it must have been the way things were. This was the end of all places and the last of all worlds. — Philip Pullman

I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Remember," she whispered, "it's only when the night is darkest that you can see the light of the stars. — Elizabeth Hunter

To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self. — Virginia Woolf