Dim Quotes

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related topics: Wisdom

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino

Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe

There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille

Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin

The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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