Words worth keeping

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.