a few words of wisdom... I think of music as being beyond opinions. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Talk sensibly to a fool and he calls you foolish. While there's breath, there's hope. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. I must say that I find television very educational- the minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. The unexamined life is not worth living. Employ your time in improving yourself by others' writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. |
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THIS ABOVE ALL: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE - Shakespeare |