music

 

 

 

Music always knows how to keep memories safe, even when we least expect it.

Stamatis Kraounakis

democrary

 

 

Screw the papers, screw the polls, we continue because democracy is in peril. I will not eat the fear being served.

Anonymous

dreams

 

 

 

hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

beauty

 

 

 

There is beauty in everything, not everyone sees it.

Confucius

you

 

 

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.

Faith Ringgold

idea

 

 

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.

Paulo Coelho

spiritual

 

 

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

pressure

 

 

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever.

Marian Keyes

reentered

 

 

It was only when he reentered his own head under the spell of sleep's uninhibited state that the disjointed bits fell into a pattern and the larger idea expressed itself.

Paul Strathern

art

 

 

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

patience

 

 

 

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

optimism

 

 

i am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

peace

 

 

 

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

distinction

 

 

 

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

he

 

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

Thich Naht Hanh

pressure

 

 

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever."

Marian Keyes

life

 

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

dreams

 

 

 

We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

absence

 

 

 

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

i

 

 

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

James Baldwin