"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." -- George Eliot "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau "Music is love in search of a word." -- Unknown "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Red Auerbach "Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." -- Thomas Carlyle "Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." -- Lawrence Durrell "You are the music while the music lasts." -- T. S. Eliot "Music is the key to the female heart." -- Johann G. Seume

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." -- Marcus Aurelius "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- G. K. Chesterton "Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Honor the ocean of love." -- George de Benneville "The love we give away is the only love we keep." -- Elbert Hubbard "A compliment is like a kiss through a veil." -- Victor Hugo "I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not." -- Robert G. Ingersoll "To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze." -- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." -- Jacques Bénigne Bossuel "When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out." -- Elizabeth Bowen "Love makes up for the lack of long memories by a sort of magic. All other affections need a past; love creates a past with envelopes us as if by enchantment." -- Benjamin Constant De Rebecque "Love is the beauty of a soul." -- St. Augustine "Love can hope where reason would despair." -- George, Lord Lyttleton "True love doesn't have a happy ending: true love doesn't have an ending." -- Unknown "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." -- Karen Sunde "Love is friendship set to music." -- Pollock "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." -- Plato "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- Antoine de Saint Exupery "If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me." -- W.H. Auden "Is not the kiss the very autograph of love?" -- Henry Finck "Love and the gentle heart are but a single thing." -- Dante Alighieri "The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart." -- Unknown "Love is like a candle. Lighting another's with our own never diminishes the light we have; it only helps us to see more clearly." -- Unknown "Hearts are not to be had as a gift Hearts are to be earned..." -- William Butler Yeats

"When you cease to dream you cease to live." -- Malcolm S. Forbes "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." -- Edward Kennedy "Believe in the promise of a magical night." -- unknown "The best way to travel is by means of imagination." -- unknown "Dreams come true for those who work while they dream." -- unknown "Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." -- J.P. McEvoy "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. -- Friedrich Von Schiller "Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together." -- Anais Nin "Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -- Pamela Vaull Starr "A dreamer lives for eternity." -- Unknown "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- William Butler Yeats "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" -- Robert Browning "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale "We need men who can dream of things that never were." -- John F. Kennedy "Nothing happens unless first a dream." -- Carl Sandburg "It may be that those who do most, dream most." -- Stephen Leacock "My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected." -- Anna M. Uhlich "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." -- William Arthur Ward "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -- Robert H. Goddard "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." -- Anatole France "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -- William Dement

"Man is free, but not if he does not believe it." -- Giacamo Girlamo Cassanova de Seingalt "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." -- Voltaire "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." -- Voltaire "A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate." -- Eric Idle "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." -- Mark Twain "One man with courage is a majority." -- Thomas Jefferson "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way." -- Robert Frost "They are able because they think they are able." -- Vergil "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -- Oliver Goldsmith "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self." -- Aldous Huxley

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -- Charles Caleb Colton "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." -- Unknown "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." -- Albert Camus "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom to catch them." -- Unknown "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." -- Unknown "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." -- Unknown "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -- Unknown "A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile." -- Allison Poler "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." -- Robert Lewis Stevenson "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." -- Albert Schweitzer "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -- Unknown

title, author unknown It was a rainy night in New Orleans; At a bus station in the town, I watched a young girl weeping As her baggage was taken down. It seems she'd lost her ticket Changing buses in the night. She begged them not to leave her there With no sign of help in sight. The bus driver had a face of stone And his heart was surely the same. "Losing your ticket's like losing cash money," He said, and left her in the rain. Then an old Indian man stood up And blocked the driver's way And would not let him pass before He said what he had to say. "How can you leave that girl out there? Have you no God to fear? You know she had a ticket. You can't just leave her here. You can't put her out in a city Where she doesn't have a friend. You will meet your schedule, But she might meet her end." The driver showed no sign That he'd heard or even cared About the young girl's problem Or how her travels fared. So the old gentleman said, "For her fare I'll pay. I'll give her a little money To help her on her way." He went and bought the ticket And helped her to her place And helped her put her baggage In the overhead luggage space. "How can I repay," she said, "the kindness you've shown tonight? We're strangers who won't meet again A mere ’thank you’ doesn't seem right." He said, "What goes around comes around. This I've learned with time -- What you give, you always get back; What you sow, you reap in kind. Always be helpful to others And give what you can spare; For by being kind to strangers, We help angels unaware."

Slow Dance author unknown Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic light Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down Don't dance so fast Time is short The music won't last Do you run through each day on the fly When you ask "How are you?" do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores running through your head? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast Time is short The music won't last Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow" And in your haste, not seen his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die 'Cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast Time is short The music won't last When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift Thrown away Life is not a race Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over.