Benjamin Zander Quotes
I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.
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11. The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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My dear Hardman, It was pleasant... I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
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Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.
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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
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If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.
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I'm an artist in my heart.
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We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.
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When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
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I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.
