“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

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“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

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John Denver: “Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful scenery can help everything.

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. 

Franz Kafka