Some quotations I like.

First learn your horn and all the theory. Next develop a style. Then forget all that and just play. —Charlie "Bird" Parker

There is no such thing as bad weather — only inappropriate clothing. –Father of Benjamin Zander

We stand drunk with fire. –Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy

Bite your teeth into the ass of life and bring it to you! -Big Night

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

When you find yourself suffering, isolated, or out of action notice what you are being right about. Then give it up, surrender your position — out loud, with another human being. -Tony Mayo

Our attention and our intention produce our behaviors. And sometimes the other way around. -David Allen

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. -John Le Carre

It is often better to speak a question than an answer. -Parker J. Palmer

Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness, believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear.

But no! Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when your eyes are opened. And we come to realize that mercy is infinite.

We need only await it with confidence and receive it in gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has

been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted. Yes, we even get back what we rejected. -Babette’s Feast

Love is not a concept; it's a procession; it's a string of days and nights that two people put together. -Garrison Keillor

Noise is rhythm. It's the click, the short sharp jab. —Mickey Hart

You give up something for everything you gain. —Bob Dylan

Every form of refuge has its price. —the Eagles

If you see a turtle on top of a fencepost, chances are it didn't get there by itself. —Yogi Berra

Never be under the weather. There are so many other places to go. —Harvey S. Ladew, founder of Ladew Gardens

It's what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. —Claude Bernard, French physiologist

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling

Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry 'bout what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go. —Allen Shamblin & Steve Seskin, "Life's a Dance"

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. —Albert Einstein

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. —Walt Whitman

You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart.—Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark"

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough,
you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day. —Des'Ree, "You Gotta Be"

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. —Abraham Joshua Heschel

Life is thirst. —Leonard Michaels

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. —Ellen Goodman

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. —George Bernard Shaw

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord. —John Cheever

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. —Albert Camus

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. —Orison Sweet Marden

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. —Chief Aupumut, Mohegan

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. —Voltaire

God is a verb. —Buckminster Fuller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. —John Andrew Holmes

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over. —Robert Frost

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. —last words of Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator