Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.
Interpretation
Stay true to your authentic self and unique identity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of remaining genuine and true to one’s unique identity and inner passions. It suggests that if you honor your true self and the distinctive music of your heart, you will be on the right path, even though this might be challenging to achieve in practice.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.
Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.
What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
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