#love

And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep. Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful. ↗

— Steven R. Boyett

#love #music #sleep #beauty

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#cares #comes #i #i love #love

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#game #losers #love #more #than

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fear #greed #kind #like #love

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#courage #depends #discover #last #loves

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. ↗

— John Clare

#die #green #loved #time #too

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#artists #chapel #doing #even #get

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom. ↗