J. B. Bernstein Quotes

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace.

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

The moment we begin to celebrate ourselves and focus on our successes is the moment we begin living.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.

The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.

Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.

Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.