#son

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away. ↗

— Janis Ian

#away #contract #day #end #end of the day

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. ↗

— Janis Ian

#bands #gave #going #guitar #guitar lessons

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward. ↗

— Janis Ian

#forward #gay #huge #i #i see

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#gives #hope #how #leader #matter

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#happy #happy person #others #person #rendered

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#arise #between #born #breathe #cosmos

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #life #limits #nationality #outpouring

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dignity #each #ensure #individual #lives

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#better #capitalist #class #come #destroys

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#been #built #care #comparable #declared