RAY CHEN Quotes

Happy Birthday, 7th March

"Music is as timeless as the emotions that it carries." ~Ray Chen 

"Consistent mindful practice will help you reach a higher level of instrument playing whether you're a prodigy or not." ~Ray Chen 

"Music heals the soul, it calms us, centres us, and creates focus in our lives. Bach’s music, in particular, written so far ahead of its time, reminds us of an important message: that humanity struggles onwards despite the odds.” ~Ray Chen, World Famous Violinist 

"Music is as timeless as the emotions that it carries." ~Ray Chen 

"Not sure if I've grown or if I'm simply different from before." ~Ray Chen 

"Some things are easier explained through music than words." ~Ray Chen 

"The joy that’s inherent in music is meant to be shared.” ~RAY CHEN

"To practice and perform well, you need to be in a good mental state so it’s good to take a little time off, even when you think you don’t need it." ~Ray Chen 

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Source: Ray Chen  

Comments 

"Very powerful! Like I said, you perform like a Dynamo! Your brain can handle complexities as demonstrated in your choice of music. They're quite challenging. Your must be under the shadow of every composer each time you play the violin." ~Admin. on  Sibelius Violin Concerto (practice)

Isaiah Berlin Quotes

“The more we know about the past, the more we know what is not true about the present.” ~Isaiah Berlin

“… To understand history is to understand what men made of the world in which they found themselves…” ~Isaiah Berlin, from the essay “The Science and the Humanities,” Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

Helen Garner - Woman Artist

"A woman artist who wants to develop as far as she can needs to live alone." ~Helen Garner, (excerpted from the book "Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages" by Carmela Ciuraru)

Jaqueline Burgess - Landscape painting

"Landscape painting imbues my desire to paint the beauty I see everyday. I've always imagined that my emotional response to the landscape could be put to canvas." ~Jaqueline Burgess

Chef Auguste GUSTEAU Quotes

Excerpted from the movie "Ratatouille"

"Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great." ~Gusteau

"Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it." ~GUSTEAU (ON T.V.) 

"If you focus on what you left behind you will never see what lies ahead!" ~Gusteau

“There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it.” ~Gusteau

John Glenn - Medicine

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." ~John Glenn

Edward Grey - Age

"I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles." ~Edward Grey

Michael Meade Quotes

"A false sense of security is the only kind there is." ~Michael Meade 

"Anxiety is the name for the distance between the ego and the deep self." ~Michael Meade 

"At each turning point in life, we must face our deepest fears in order to grow." ~Michael Meade

"Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself." ~Michael Meadow 

"The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the centre of life again." ~Michael Meade

"When people draw from the root of their deeper self,  they become authentic and able to act with true originality for the deep self is secretly connected to the origins of life." ~Michael Meade 

W.S. Merwin - Thread, needle and colour

"Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its colour." ~W.S. Merwin 

The Holistic Psychologist - Calm rational conversation

"It's incredibly attractive when a person can have a calm rational conversation even when the topic is tense. They don't get swept away in their own reactivity, they hear the other person,  and they can tolerate disagreement. Maturity is  magnetic." ~The Holistic Psychologist, Instagram 

Julie Powell - Art and culture

Portrait of my Teta Frieda

A draft sample of paint brush 

by Selima Dancel Petro 

June 15, 2023

"Put down the camera and immerse yourself in art and culture." ~Julie Powell 

Featured Quote in REFLECTION

Lifted from FB

Steven Prljic - Humanity

"History has shown oil and water never have and never will mix ( rich v poor ) is the way of humanity." ~Steven Prljic

Peter Bromberg - Conversation

"When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short term discomfort to long term dysfunction." ~Peter Bromberg 

Andrea Gibson - Pray for rain

“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” ~Andrea Gibson

Jing Dancel-Matias - Blessing

"The multitude of tasks in life..should more be seen as a blessing than a burden." ~Jing Dancel-Matias 

Meg Hough - Focus

"FOCUS on what is important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negative. And if things don't work out ? Take another shot." ~Meg Hough

Rosario Caristea Quotes

"If you are not ready to see buried skeletons, stop digging the ground where trust issues have grown." ~Rosario Caristea

"The rugged terrain is for the tough pilgrims only." ~Rosario Caristea 

THEOLINDA FOSTER

"Live for your memories but allow yourself to let your heart AND eyes feel and see what does make you smile." ~Theolinda Foster

 "Look for the little things that make people feel good and when they do get down in the heart to remember all the good that havee been a part of them." ~Theolinda Foster, Poet, Friend, Indiana USA

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