Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.