“For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.” PeopleIfsMenMayArtTalentCreaturesTravelRemainsDenySuperiorsMiserableMediocreArt And Science Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.” IfsWellsMayHappensHappinessImaginationRejoiceLament Book:The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791) Source: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)
“Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!” KnowsMayStillsMatterGods WillUselessSpeculation Book:The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791) Source: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)
“I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.” MayYoungLyingNightReflectingAnother DayNever Lie Book:The Letters of Mozart and His Family Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family
“I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . .” GivingMayMatterHomeCertainHouseWaitingBornHoursTalentStudentsOughtLessonsGoodnessAnxietyFavorsComposerCompositionInclinationObligedPupils Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
