Cracks and light, quote of the day

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen
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Quote of the day

“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”

- Jean-Luc Godard

Jesus loves you

Music, psychology, Shopenhauer

“ The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from pain…Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, as quoted in Oliver Sacks’ insanely good 2007 book, Musicophilia

Hammer and nails

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow, psychologist

Meldau

Quote of the day

“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…” — Sylvia Plath, american writer

Living well

“Living well is the best revenge”
This quote from a middle age philosopher has been borrowed by R.E.M. as a song title. I wish I had discovered it before, as it would be a great album title… And I’m quietly thinking about a title for my album…