#yin

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.) ↗

— Nora Ephron

#old-age #age

The old age old story of Yin & Yang...Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you? ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #age

Many use laughter to hide their tears and anger to hide their fear As you walk through life use your smile to show you your heart full of good cheer ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #anger

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. ↗

— Patti Smith

#appease #business #did #flawed #i

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#esthetics #lying #art

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts #arts-and-humanities #book #books #culture

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that. ↗

— Pat Travers

#ago #albums #along #battles #doing

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#audience #concerned #how #look #much