“Without purpose, we’re zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.”— Ahmed Mostafa Related Quotes “So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”— Aaron Copland “Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.”— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps “Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.”— John O’Donohue