#pay

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#extending-your-heart #happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #kindness

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#entire #fools #group #minority #minority group

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

Laziness is a luxurious mindset that I can not afford to own. ↗

— Nakia R. Laushaul

#inspirational #laziness #love #inspirational

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

#crime #criminals #inflated #market #most

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much. ↗

— Don Adams

#been #child #child support #i #joke

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational