Composer Quotes

“The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.”

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.”

“I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.”

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

“Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

“When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.”

“Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”

“The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”

“The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.”

“The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”

“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”

“Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.”

“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”

“Our creation is the modification of relationship.”

“If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.”

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

“Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.”

“Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.”

“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”