"I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying."
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"The human voice is the organ of the soul."
"Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom."
"I believe that music is God's voice."
"Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul."
"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
"When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects."
"Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!."
"That mean voice in your head is not you and not true."
"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
"All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind."
"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . ."
"Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better."
"We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds."
"Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide."
"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."
"In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude."
"Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give."
"Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate."
"Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have."