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)

hardships

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

the centre

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W B Yeats

tyranny

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke

voting

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Theodore Hesburgh

nothing

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

warn

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

Sinclair Lewis

stories

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Douglas Kennedy

memory

Memory... is the diary that we all carry with us.

Oscar Wilde

crack

There is a crack in everything, that's how the Light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

flowers

I must have flowers, always and always.

Claude Monet

hope

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it for an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt