Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbritary, clearly invented balderdash?
The acceptance of a creed, any creed entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended famliy we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness.
Any time I see a person fleeing from reason & into religion, I think there goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely any more.
Kurt Vonnegut

ÔÇ£I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers ot The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge of how to fix the mistakes of generations past & present. I only know that without compassion & respect for all of earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive ÔÇô nor will we deserve to.ÔÇØ
Leonard Peltier.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£People don't realise how hard it is to speak truth to a world full of people who don't realise they're living a lie.ÔÇØ
Edward Snowden

ÔÇ£Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.ÔÇØ
Twyla Tharp

ÔÇ£Music to me is the perfect expression of the soul.ÔÇØ
Schumann

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first & foremost & as such I'm for whoever & whatever benefits humanity as a whole.ÔÇØ
Malcolm X

ÔÇ£It is alittle embarrassing that, after forty five years of research & study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

ÔÇ£If we quit trying it all goes in the shitterÔÇØ.
David Crosby

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.ÔÇØ
Ernest Hemingway

ÔÇ£Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

ÔÇ£I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.ÔÇØ
Ernest Hemingway

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The true strength of rulers & empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open & true & legal. As soon as a govt departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession' & its days are numbered.ÔÇØ
H.G.Wells

ÔÇ£Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.ÔÇØ
Robert Louis Stevenson

ÔÇ£If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who & how you are, to astonish a mean wolrd with your kindness.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.ÔÇØ -
Immanuel Kant

ÔÇ£You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. DonÔÇÖt make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people canÔÇÖt take their eyes off of you.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

ÔÇ£Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£All great achievements require time.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Nothing will work unless you do.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Success is loving life and daring to live it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Talent is like electricity. We donÔÇÖt understand electricity. We use it.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you canÔÇÖt practice any other virtue consistently.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We canÔÇÖt be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.ÔÇØ


Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under oneÔÇÖs skin, at the extreme corners of oneÔÇÖs eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Strong women ÔÇö precious jewels all ÔÇö their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£DonÔÇÖt let the man bring you down.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A friend may be waiting behind a strangerÔÇÖs face.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If youÔÇÖre for the right thing, you do it without thinking.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We need much less than we think we need.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we arenÔÇÖt, we should behave as though we are ÔÇö cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.ÔÇØ

Maya Angelou

ÔÇ£There is always light. If only weÔÇÖre brave enough to see it. If only weÔÇÖre brave enough to be it.ÔÇØ
Amanda Gorman