The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.
John Philip SousaRead
Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
Interpretation
Embrace life fully without fear or self-consciousness.
This quote encourages individuals to express themselves freely and wholeheartedly in all aspects of life, from dance to love and singing. It suggests living with a sense of joy and abandon, treating each experience as if it were pure and untainted by past hurts or judgments from others.
In practice
This quote can inspire a heartfelt wedding speech about love and commitment.
The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lordβs way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.
There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.
The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.
The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.
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