#thin

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

The way to know life is to love many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#know #life #many #things #to love

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

#everything #measured #music #proportion #universe

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#because #doing #i #i quit #interviews

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#each #enriched #experience #get #going

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#i #music #musician

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#artist #before #came #cd #chicks

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.' ↗

— Taylor Swift

#early #go #i #i love #love

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#i #like #only #really #role