Maria von Trapp Quotes

• Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

  Maria von Trapp

  Music, Heart, Keys

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• One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

  Maria von Trapp

  Joy, Way, Life Is

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• The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

  Maria von Trapp

  Music, Powerful, Weapons

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• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

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• American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.

  Maria von Trapp

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• But there is that certain something about wanting to do the will of God. If one is sincere and if one really wants to know what His will is, all one has to do is be quiet. Shut off the television and radio, and in that silence one will always hear that still small voice in one's heart telling him what to do.

  Maria von Trapp

  Heart, Voice, Silence

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• Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

  Maria von Trapp

  Memories, Hands, Games

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• I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

  Maria von Trapp

  Thinking, Sound And Music, Singing

  "Fictional character: Maria". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. March 2, 1965.

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• The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

  Maria von Trapp

  Grief, Loss, People

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• No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

  Maria von Trapp

  Long, Decent, Disgrace

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