RON HENGGELER

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

“Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.”

Idries Shah

Learning How to Live: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

Abraham Lincoln

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

William Shakespeare

“When one realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”

P.D. Ouspensky

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.”

— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

Ancient Native American Proverb

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

Victor Hugo

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

Golda Meir

“This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

Albert Einstein

“There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. ”

Hazard Inayat Khan

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

Jane Goodall

“What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.”

Lisa Mantchev

Eyes Like Stars

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Lao Tzu

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”

E.B. White

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Dr. Seuss

“You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.”

Edmond Mbiaka

The way you shout into the forest is the way the echo comes back.

Old German folk saying

Humanity is the earth’s nerve-endings through which planetary vibrations are received for transmission.

Gurdjieff

One of the strongest motives for the wish to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment—only you must first realize this.

Gurdjieff

“Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.”

Bryant McGill

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Mark Twain

“Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes

“And, in the end

The love you take

is equal to the love you make.”

Paul McCartney

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”

Harat Inayat Khan

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

P.D. Ouspensky

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”

Kurt Vonnegut

“If you're reading this. . .
congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.”

Chad Sugg

Monsters Under Your Head

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

Duwamish

“It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”

P.D. Ouspensky

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Elie Wiesel

“Each age has deemed the new-born year

The fittest time for festal cheer.”

Walter Scott

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”

Chico Xavier

“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

Helen Keller

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

Ludwig van Beethoven

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.”

P.D. Ouspensky

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

Aldoux Huxley

Music at Night and Other Essays

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

Dr. Seuss

Oh, The Places You'll Go

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.”

P.D. Ouspensky

The Fourth Way

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

C.G.Jung

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

John Lennon

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde

We must destroy our buffers. Children have none; therefore we must become like little children.

Gurdjieff

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning."

T.S.Elliot

Little Gidding

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

John Lennon

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.”

William Purkey

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

William Faulkner

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

“The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.”

Hazard Inayat Khan

“May Light always surround you:
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.”

D.Simone

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

Ojibway proverb

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

Aberjhani

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotation for a Life made out of Poetry

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E.M.Forster

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

Oprah Winfrey

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

W.H. Auden

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

Mae West

“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine.

First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”

P.D. Ouspensky

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

Dr. Seuss