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• If wishes were fishes we'd all be capricious.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• I am not concerned with anyone's expectations of me. It is not that I do not care what they think it is instead that my expectations of myself far exceed those anyone else could have.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• A common fallacy among human beings is the belief that thought is required in order to properly act or feel.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Change in oneself happens not through struggle but through awareness.
  (Adyashanti)
   
• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
  (Buckminster Fuller - contributed by Alex Shapiro)
   
• You'll see it when you believe it.
  (Wayne Dyer- contributed by Alex Shapiro)
   
• What other people think of me in none of my business.
  (Wayne Dyer- contributed by Alex Shapiro)
   
• Be the change you want to see in the world.
  (Gandhi - contributed by Alex Shapiro)
   
• If you ain't pissin' someone off some of the time, then you're just not tryin' hard enough!
  (John Rich (of Big and Rich) - Contributed by Alex Shapiro)
   
• Success is 99% failure.
  (Unknown)
   
• As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
  (Jules Renard - contributed by Melanie)
   
• It is an interesting precept that, in awareness, a mind, which has been conditioned to be the master, would willingly step down from the throne of control in favor of freedom. This is true intelligence.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Silence is the mind's recognition that it is not God....
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Ask not how you can change the world but instead ask how you can change your mind about the world.
  (ACIM)
   
• To make music you need to quiet your mind and then see if something comes out you did not realize was there.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Life is an illusion; albeit a persistent one.
  (Albert Einstein)
   
• Thoughts tie us to a certain time and space. Silence is an open door.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Each new composition should be an extension of what the composer did before but at the same time it should also be a departure from it.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Beneath the difference of language is truth.
  (David Haycock)
   
• The grass is greener on the other side but you still have to mow it.
  (Contributed by Jeff)

 
• I just do what I do. It's you who calls it music.
  (John Cage)

 
• I pretended to be the person I wanted to be until he became me, or I became him.
  (Cary Grant)
  
  
• In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
  (Charles Mingus)



• The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose, --that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn me. . . What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, --it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot.
  (Herman Melville in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne)
   
• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
  (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance)
   
• Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority...Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
  (Dr. Martin Luther King)
   
• I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be around when it happens.
  (Woody Allen)
   
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
   
• Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.
  (Stephen Levine)
   
• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
  (Marianne Williamson)
   
• If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
  (Walt Disney)
   
• Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
  (Shakti Gawain)
   
• A wise man talks less and says more.
  (contributed by Scott)
   
• We learn by correction not by perfection!
  (contributed by Jeff)
   
• Before enlightenment, chop wood!, after enlightenment, chop wood!
  (Ancient Zen)
   
• Once you accept the nos, the yeses will come.
  (Car Salesman)
   
• It's easier to be done than to be satisfied.
  (Quincy Jones)
   
• Life is an experiment, try it.
  (Jeff)
   
• Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.
  (Dad)
   
• People are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  (Abe Lincoln)
   
• What goes around comes around.
   
• Being alive is hazardous to your health.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• Happy people are those that make the best of everything.
   
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
   
• Never take yourself as seriously as others are prepared to.
  (Charlton Heston)
   
• Silence stops time and puts emphasis on the infinite.
  (Michael Rhoades)
   
• To stay the course you sometimes have to make waves.
   
• When life deals you lemons you make lemonade.
   
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
   
• The cost of giving is receiving.
  (ACIM)
   
• All good things come to those who wait.
   
• We don't find friends, we make them.
   
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are endless.
   
• A day hemmed in prayer seldom comes unraveled.
   
• Wipe the dust from your feet and move on.
   
• An angry man is seldom reasonable, a reasonable man is seldom angry.
   

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