#u

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person that you will ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#soul-mates #change

I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#change

I had once been splintered into a million beings and objects. Today I am one, tomorrow I shall splinter again. And thus everything in the world decants and modulates. That day I was on the crest of a wave. I knew that all my surroundings were notes of one and the same harmony, knew - secretly - the source and the inevitable resolution of the sounds assembled for an instant, and the new chord that would be engendered by each of the dispersing notes. My soul's musical ear knew and comprehended everything. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#music

When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you undestand the lyrics. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#love #music #sad-but-true #love

I was 4 when I started learning music. I still remember my first vocal class where I cried telling mum that I can never get it right. I’m glad she made me stick with it because she already knew what makes me happy even before I did. And gradually I realize that everyone has that point in life where we hit crossroads, had bunch of bad days and there’s different ways to deal with it, and the way I dealt with it was I just turned to music. ↗

— Manasa Rao

#music #music

To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind. My photographs express my interior movement from darkness into light and back. ↗

— Polly Norman

#dances-through-glass #soaring-and-crashing #music

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#music

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience ↗

— John McLaughlin

#niche #transcendental #music

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nature

I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#jean-claude #love #beauty