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