Flute Quotes

Everything that I love is behind those gates.

We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles,

and every kind of tigers and lions.

And

and we have bus loads of kids,

who don't get to see those things.

They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if

they were great and noble.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Technological progress has merely provided us with

more efficient means for going backwards.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Power is the result of discipline and unity.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful

that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Give a boy address and accomplishments

and you give him the mastery of palaces

and fortunes where he goes.

The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it,

but what they become by it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,

is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The ultimate aim of the ego

is not to see something,

but to be something

War is what happens when language fails.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when

they do it from religious conviction.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental

and individual symbol for an universal one.

In the end,

only three things matter: how much you loved,

how gently you lived,

and how gracefully you let go.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen.