no more

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.

Bonnell

fellow-workers

Those who are asleep are fellow-workers in what goes on in the world.

Heraclitus

purpose

"Purpose is the essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history. Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill." Chadwick Boseman.

may Chadwick Boseman's missions be accomplished

WAKANDA FOREVER!!

change

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

nothing

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.

Paulo Coehlo

creation

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

Sonia Delaunay

processing

By processing rather than repressing the experience one is able to get through it.

Star Trek

alive

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

realize

Over time you realize that in fact the best was not the future, but the moment you were living just that instant.

Jorge Luis Borges

crack

there is a crack in everything.
that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen, Anthem

beautiful

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

comparison

Comparison is the death of joy.

Mark Twain

courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck

chance

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

desires

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamored for it.

Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove

myth

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Robert Penn Warren

man

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

pre-existing

America has a pre-existing condition, it's called moral bankruptcy.

Judit Sipos-Szabó

self

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

dismiss

Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.

Rumi

you

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Rep. John Lewis

necssity

A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

Toni Morrison

indebted

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

few

Few are those who see what their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

still

Only in still waters does things reflect themselves in an undistorted way. Only in a quiet mind is there an adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

thinking

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

opportunity

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

seen

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and to be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

nothing

It does happen that sometimes the old have nothing to teach the young, except by sad example.

Anonymous

what if

There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask, "What if I fall?"
Oh buy my darling,
What if you fly?"

Erin Hanson

trouble

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of American.

Rep.  John Lewis

nothing

Nothing can stop the power of committed and determine people to make a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings are most dynamic link to the divine on this planet.

Rep.  John Lewis

struggle

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Rep. John Lewis

still

Only in still waters do things reflect themselves in an undistorted way. Only in a quiet mind is there an adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

glory

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

real

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

as if

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

future

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

freeing

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

perfectibility

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

dream

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

heal

Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let it go.

Roy T. Bennett

delay

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

time

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

beating

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

declaration

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Declaration of Independence

unknown

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends
everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

John Lennon

show

We should show our lives not as it is or how it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Leo Tolstoy

silence

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only in the shadow of dreams.

Lewis Thompson