Contentment Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““...you play the instrument you have.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Life lessons Music making
“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.” — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.” — Owen Sheers Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be a professional to play music. Close your eyes, take a deep breath.. And let it out. Let the violin… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
“One must have the music in his heart before he can play it on the strings.” — Carlos Montoya Copy Share Image
“It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.” — Michael Baron Copy Share Image
“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love and cherish your ability to play an instrument; and give it your best. Not everyone is so lucky as you are. And welcome… — Mr. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.” — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.' — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it… — George Gissing Copy Share
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share
