John Powell Quotes

John Powell shares clear, logical reflections on law, logic and justice.

13 quotes

  1. Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

  2. You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

  3. Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

  4. There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

  5. God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

  6. He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

  7. You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

  8. A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

  9. Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

  10. It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  11. You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

  12. Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

  13. The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.