#kin

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ↗

— Mary Lyon

#much #nine-tenths #others #ought #our

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#battle #because #been #circle #creating

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#always #been #both #cd #communication

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#give #skin #soul #up #wrinkle

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had. ↗

— James MacArthur

#enough #fortunate #had #i #kind

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#being #dismayed #failures #human #human being

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#always #experience #harsh #interpretations #kind

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#activity #another #bearing #burdens #condition