“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”       

-Confucius

“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more dynamic than love?”         

-Igor Stravinsky

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”  

-Max De Pree

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”                                       

-Jesus of Nazareth

“Morality when vigorously alive sees farther than intellect.”                  

-J. A. Froude

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years’ mere study of books.”         

-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

“Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness.”                                                   

-Galen

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”                              

-Theodore Roosevelt

“What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.”  

-Aristotle

‘Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment.”    

-Unknown

“She who wants to have right without wrong, order without disorder, does not understand the principles of heaven and earth, she does not know how things hang together.”        

-Chung Tzu, fourth century B.C. 

“In matters of style, swim with the currents; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”                                        

-Thomas Jefferson 

“There is no limit to what you can achieve if you don’t mind who gets the credit.”                                                     

-Unknown

“There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all.”                                                    

-Peter Drucker

“Good leadership consists of doing less and being more.”  

-Lao Tzu

“Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.”                                                              

-Albert Einstein

“Power comes through cooperation, independence through service, and a greater self through selflessness.”                     

-Tao Te Ching

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”                         

-Goethe

“For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you desire, that is possible to you.”                       

-D. H. Lawrence

Eva: Q. How do we emerge whole from life’s noise, expectations, indoctrination, mixed messages, demands, and frustrations? How do we find our own voice and move in our own way to our authentic manifestations?

A. “Know thyself” is the inscription at the entrance to see the oracle at Delphi. “He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened” said Lao-Tzu. And Carl Roger said “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”