#comp

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#art

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friendship #letters #friendship

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-wise #decision-making #fools #friendship #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is _your own_, but as something universal and worthy of love, _which I have found_. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#friendship #love #possessiveness #friendship

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#dead-people #writing #friendship

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#beauty #bow #composer #creation #lie

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#cast #compass #knows #like #loves

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#conversation #enjoyment #faculty #friendship #silence

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #balance #better #cases #combination

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent friend. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#companionship #discovery #dog #friend #friendship