Quotes

“The chance to live makes us obligated to do whatever we can to guarantee that those processes that were played out before we arrived are not repeated in the same way.”

Kerry James Marshall

You may think yourself lazy, or flawed. Yet your body is made of almost exactly the same elements as the stars. Your bone composition matches perfectly the coral in the seas, and you, my friend, are ruled by the moon and the sun, the tides and the planets. Whether you like it or not. So, no, you are not lazy, you are not late. Nature is simply

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

- Steve Jobs

“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."

- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

“Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.” - Audre Lorde

“Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” - Maya Angelou

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. - Mortimer Adler