circle

Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law.

Deyth Banger

value

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

Louise Bourgeoise

wherever

Wherever you are is the entry point...

Kabir

earth

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett

courage

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

move on

Move on

Hold it together, move on

Life's so short, move on

Only time will set you free

George Michael

public

The general public does not know what is happening in the world. Neither do they know that they do not know.

Noam Chomsky

beginnings

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

day

May your day be full of limitless joy and true happiness.

you

You may not control all of the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

courage

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

life

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol

thought

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

responsible

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Gifford Pinchot

creativity

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus

reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

shape

Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.

Toba Beta

bring

Peace in the mind, love and compassion in the heart, bring the scattered world into one reality.

Baba Hari Dass

new

New year - a new chapter, new verse or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

Alex Morritt

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