#sings

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#billie #billie holiday #hear #her #holiday

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ↗

— Robert Burns

#dying #gets #guy #instead #opera

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#capitalism #equal #inherent #miseries #sharing

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#blessings #god #heaven #open #pour

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#blues #deep #help #pit #sings

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#coincidences #events #given #learn #mistakes

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#coincidences #events #everything #get #given

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. ↗

— Sallust

#also #beginning #blessings #decay #end

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#else #flute #heart #hours #music