#not

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. ↗

#composer #first-class #first-rate #i #i am

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#another #come #days #especially #every

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#dead #die #earth #gave #go

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#bored #fun #head #make #monotonous

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#between #bond #dance #heavens #love

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#alms #better #cannot #distaste #gate

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#complete #created #eternal #foolishness #great

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dawning #knowledge #lies #man #nothing

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#beloved #caused #death #more #perish

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. ↗