Quotes of Olivier Messiaen

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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

- Olivier Messiaen

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“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Warm someone's cheek Whisper Caress Kiss for 10 seconds, or more, or for the rest of your life Be there Love Long Belong Be loyal Be love Be with someone always Belong to yourself ”

- David C. Sarnacki