“The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut
"You don't think your way into a new find of living, you live your way into a new kind of thinking"
-Henri Nouwen
"Those who don't stand for something, will fall for anything." -Ben Franklin
"Your heart is a weapon the size of you fist. Keep fighting, keep loving."
"To EXIST is to RESIST"
"Even if everyone cannot forget his hate for this F**ing wall, we cannot forget LOVE breaks it."
-Wall Graffiti in West Bank Palestine
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is discord, harmony. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sorrow, joy. Oh, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life..." [francis of assisi.]
One must have an understanding of history in order to properly interpret the present.
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”-Cecil day Lewis
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -MLK Jr.
"Don't let what you can not do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden
"Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things, can alter the face of the world." -Inscription on the last remaining section of the Berlin Wall
"You do not have a soul, you are a soul. you have a body." -C.S Lewis
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it" -MLK Jr.
I am also like you because I have a choice. To become bitter, cynical, jaded, and hard. Anybody can do that. A lot have. Hatred is a powerful, unifying force. And there is a lot to be repulsed by.
"Your first 10,000 photographs are always your worst." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
"You dont take a photograph, you make it." -Ansel Adams
I find the great thing in this world is not so much
where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
- we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it - but we must sail,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument" -Amy
Sollars
A womans heart should be so lost in God that a man must seek Him in order to find her
