#hart

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗

— Sting

#body #breathed #case #charts #commodity

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#bought #charts #chord #had #i

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#anchor #beacon #chart #compass #far

If I can't have you for the rest of my life, I will be alone. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#gabby-gerhart #love #mending #this-trilogy #life

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#buddhism #monasticism #siddhartha #siddhartha-gautama #love

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#intellect #restlessness #siddhartha #soul #intellect

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#knowledge #learning #self #siddhartha #self-knowledge

Love couldn’t be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies—skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn’t deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#destiny #eternal-love #gavin-devereaux #love #resistance-trilogy