Quotes About Resonance

If you go there—you who was never there—if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there, waiting for you . . . Even though it's all over—over and done with—it's going to always be there waiting for you.

An idea handed to me in the earliest years of my life of conversation comes back with new resonance—the idea of a kinship between the spirituality of the scientist and the spirituality of the mystic: a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know.

I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, made up of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.

Music to my ears." Though not a tune I'm fond of.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

Don't worry about how you look to the world; remember, the world is an illusion. It will remake itself according to what you resonate and focus on. Concern yourself only with living a life that FEELS miraculous, wondrous, and magical to you.

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

Poets generally write as if they were dead. –

You've got some of me in you

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that's already inside of you.

From one bell all the bells toll.

You see, darkness can't live where music resounds. Darkness can't live where the power of God abounds. Darkness can't sustain itself. So, use the following meditation anytime you want to surround yourself with angels, and particularly if you're in need of healing.

Only, somewhere far inside my spine and deep in the palms of my hands, something hummed; like a sound too low to hear, like a warning, like a cello string when a tuning fork strikes the perfect tone to call it awake.

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around...

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.