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May these quotes about Africa inspire and motivate you.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia.
But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa,
whereby its leaders combine in their efforts
to solve the problems of this continent.
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests,
of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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