Quotes of Benjamin Britten

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I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

- Benjamin Britten

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“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed. ”

- Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ 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

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

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“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav