Some great, true quotes by some inspirational people. Nadia Boulanger was one of the greatest influences on music in the 20th century, she is an inspiration to me every day as a musician. Johannes Brahms is known for having a myriad of great sayings, and this one relates both to his disdain for many of the nasty people in the musical community at the time as well as a basic truth about human society. Edouard Manet also inspires me as an artist. And Father McIlhiney is one of the kindest and most loving human beings walking this Earth. These people speak words of wisdom.
- "Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves." - Nadia Boulanger
- "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.” - Johannes Brahms
- "The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted." - Edouard Manet
- "Christ says that if God is going to forgive us, we must first become forgiving people ourselves. Whenever I say “I’m sorry,” I’m helping another person to find that forgiveness within herself or himself." - the Rev. David McIlhiney
-“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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