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

step

 

 

 

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

democracy

 

 

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

leave

 

 

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

rage

 

 

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Octavia E. Butler

bold

 

 

 

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Sigmud Freud

seek

 

 

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

loneliness

 

 

Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone, whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others.

Hannah Arendt

power

 

 

 

It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

never

 

 

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

universe

 

 

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Paulo Coelho

those

 

 

 

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

consequences

 

 

Every word has consequences. Every silence too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

illusion

 

 

 

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

destroy

 

 

 

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

magic world

 

I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.

Virginia Woolf

conscience

 

 

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Octavia E. Butler