be

 

 

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Octavia Butler

love

 

 

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into frienc.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

dreams

 

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

freedom

 

 

 

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Nina Simone

vibration

 

 

 

Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall

live

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

right

 

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

love

 

 

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

David Wilkerson

you

 

 

 

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Carl Jung

music

 

 

What I like my music to do is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

sun

 

 

 

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

lie

 

 

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

George Orwell, 1984

heart

 

 

 

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Joni Mitchell

starlight

 

 

Starlight raining over me. Like drifting through a memory. Wake up in your crystal sky.

Jai Wolf, Starlight

books

 

 

We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.

Émile Zola

death

 

 

 

 Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.

Carl Jung

ignorance

 

 

 

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

evil

 

 

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.

Sun Tzu

constructing

 

 

 

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Alice Walker

mine

 

 

 

Whatever is mine, is looking for me.

Alice Walker

reserved

 

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

try

 

 

Try to say nothing negative about anyone for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

Yoko Ono

horrors

 

 

True horror lies not in monsters but in what men are capable of doing to one another.

anonymous

life

 

 

My side of the story doesn't matter anymore. Life happened, it hurt, I healed, but more importantly I learned who deserves a seat at my table and who will never sit at it again.

Eminem

camera

 

 

The camera is like a typewriter, in the sense in which you can use the machine to write a love letter, a book, or a business memo.

Duane Michals

sometimes

 

 

 

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

Paulo Coelho

 

dangerous

 

 

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

study

 

 

 

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Confucius

space

 

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

responsibility

 

 

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion