warrior

A warrior sees the universe as an endless mystery and the acts of men as endless folly.

Don Juan

i

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

miracle

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

affect

The greatest of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley

becomes

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

does not

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Susan Sontag

peace

merry christmas
may peace and common sense prevail on earth

religion

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

heart

Come forth, and bring with you a heart that watches and receives.

William Wordsworth

cover

I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.

Alicia Keys

paralyzing...

Nothing is more paralyzing to the progress of our species than cowering from death.

Carl Jung

i

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

hiding

Sometimes the best hiding place is one in plain sight.

Edgar Allen Poe

confused

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

going

Sometimes all you know about where you're going is that it's away from where you are.

Leah Raeder

veil

Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

Kabir

self-preservation

Caring for oneself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

shadow

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we have been sheltering.

Gilles Deleuze

life

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin

thankful

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert louis Stevenson

purpose

I often ask myself what is the purpose of our lives and i conclude that life's purpose is to be happy. We have no guarantee what will happen in the future, but we live in hope. That's what keeps us going.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

possessions

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Allen Ginsberg

re-examine

Re-exaine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Walt Whitman

study

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

Henri Murger

comfortable

If you are comfortable with my oppression, then you are my oppressor.

A. Philip Randolph

keep

Put you trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Oliver Cromwell

freedom

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

breath

breath in. breath out.
there is nothing between the two.

takeshi kimeda-sensei

now

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

e.e. cummings

talk

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

spirits

I think our lives are surely but the dreams of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.

Edgar Saltus

sides

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

flowers

More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always.

Claude Monet

fantasy

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

yourself

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

lack

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

dreams

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Sigmand Freud

depend

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

tied

We are tied to the ocean. and when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

favorite

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus

use

Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth and your heart for love.

Rumi

world

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paul Coelho

do it

Whatever the thing you can do or that you dream of doing, do it. Boldness has genius, power and magic.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

together

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Ryunosuke Satoro

cure

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Michael Critchton

waste

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it?
And i'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Lady Gaga

can't

You can't stop the future.

Jay Asher

free

Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Leonard Cohen

crack

There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

believe

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4)