All the musicians that I know want to act.
I often wish. . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness. . . there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.