Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.
Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
Music is life, and life is not a business.
They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
