#list

Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#god #love

Song of myself Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it. I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals, I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following, Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night, Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals, The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick, The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence, The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters, The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two, (They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.) I hear the violoncello, ('tis the young man's heart's complaint,) I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears, It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast. I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music--this suits me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#music #noises #sounds #death

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #perfectionism #thinness #unrealistic #love

If you love too much, you lose yourself. If you love too little, you never find yourself. ↗

— Janet Gallagher Nestor

#mindfulness #self-help #stress-relief #well-being #wellness

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show. ↗

— Tablo

#listen #listener #music #musician #strangers

I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#love #realist #romance #true #love

We always remember our first love as if they were our last and wish our last love was just like our first. ↗

— Nicholas Graveheart

#inspirational #realistic #inspirational

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#realistic #inspirational

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical