#if

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. ↗

— Harry Browne

#burden #day #great #i #lifted

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#any #go #going #i #i do

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value. ↗

— Anne Rice

#learning #life #love #beauty

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#beautiful #dull #face #grass #life

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. ↗

— Robert Browning

#bad #being #black #business #choice

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #because #believe #contribute #fame

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. ↗

— Robert Browning

#i #just #life #soul #strength

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#anymore #become #certain #each #entire

Concord, California was a great place to grow up. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#concord #great #grow #grow up #place

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her