The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.--Pablo Picasso

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.--Henry David Thoreau

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out a hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.

- Norman Reedus

A thing well done is worth doing.--Hugh Leonard

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

My favorite animal is steak.--Fran Lebowitz

“I have no right to say or do anything
that diminishes a man in his own eyes.
What matters is not what I think of him
but what he thinks of himself.
Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Sun Never Says by Hafiz
 

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens
With love like that
It lights the whole sky....

~Hafiz~

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.--Peter Abelard

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini


“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Social change is a million individual acts of kindness. Cultural change is a million subversive acts of resistance.

~Mary Pipher

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
~Gilda Radner

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw


“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
~Maya Angelou

Something to ponder later....
 

"Sexuality is socially constructed for men out of their position of dominance, and for women out of their position of subordination. Thus it is the eroticized inequality of women which forms the excitement of sex under male supremacy. As a result, radical feminist critics argue, the sexuality of men commonly takes the form of aggression, objectification, the cutting off of sex from emotion, and the centering of sex entirely around penile entry into the body of a woman. For women sexuality takes the form of pleasure in their subordinate position and the eroticizing of men's dominance. This system does not work efficiently."

-Sheila Jeffreys, Unpacking Queer Politics

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.--Plautus