Kassandra Dick > Quotes

“Don’t fight the fall. Don’t try to claw your way out of open space. Fall like Alice, like Icarus, like my grades in high school. Fall to catch yourself again. Pull the chute whenever you can. Be your own best friend. Then you can help the world in your own way, in your own time.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Poetry isn’t arriving on the scene after any sort of hiatus. It has been smoking a cigarette on the sidelines this whole time.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Your senses are functioning. Your intelligence is sound. Your consciousness matters. It does not matter what you call it. It is self-evident. You can make sense of the world and make good choices. Do so.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Before you die you do watch your life go by. It's only a flash if you never look with your own eyes.”
― Kassandra Dick, Songs From the Mountaintop

“The easier a language is to learn, the easier it is to remember, the easier it spreads. The more we share a common tongue, the better we can share ideas and relate to one another.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Poems can encapsulate a single moment, or an entire era.”
― Kassandra Dick

“The more we allow ourselves to be okay despite being at polar ends of the universe, the more we recognize that we create a fuller, more dynamic world together.”
― Kassandra Dick

“In most cases, there is no greater currency in poetry than a like and a share. We don’t become wordsmiths to make millions, we do it to reach millions.”
― Kassandra Dick

“We run half our lives on someone else's time. Then we wonder, where the hell was I?”
― Kassandra Dick, Songs From the Mountaintop

“Do not darken in the face of ignorance, enlighten it.”
― Kassandra Dick

“What I mean by playing the hero’s advocate is to root for the players that add value to the game, defend the intellectuals who would free your mind and fuel your brain, and be transparent about your values, always.”
― Kassandra Dick

“The truth is worth a thousand silences.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Be brave in the face of those who would ostracize you for using your reason above the “word of God”. Dodge whatever Holy Book they happen to throw at you.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Above all, remember every evil idea deserves to be hated. Hating people however, is endless AND dangerous. People, including yourself, can change when you give them reason and space.”
― Kassandra Dick

“We do our best work every time we do the best we can.”
― Kassandra Dick

“What is done “in God’s name” is as evil as it is vain”
― Kassandra Dick

“Just recognize that the words aren’t made of stone and you’re not made of glass. Recognize that you are safe, you are whole, and you have nothing to worry about.”
― Kassandra Dick

“In a free market, no one can lobby for more leniency or regulation. If rights are involved, it becomes a judicial case. No one can receive funding except through voluntary exchange. In short, you have to prove your company’s worth or face failure, which sounds harsh until you realize that the failure of a bad business is a good thing. No one should be rewarded for predatory practices, but that’s exactly what we’re up against when a government can step in at any time and we have to pay them to do it.”
― Kassandra Dick

“We live in cycles. Cycles, how simple is that? It’s just like the tug and pull of the tides, the inhale and exhale of the wind, the ease of the trees letting loose their leaves, knowing full well they’ll regrow next spring.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Come to your conclusions through a process of deliberation. Include new information as it is presented and integrate accordingly. Stop playing the devil’s advocate when he adds nothing to the conversation. For once, play the hero’s advocate.”
― Kassandra Dick

“I cannot grow without goals, without freedom. I grant myself the serenity, the courage and the wisdom.”
― Kassandra Dick, Songs From the Mountaintop

“God isn’t a thing that exists. God is a label for portions of reality which are good. Portions of people that are good — the beautiful bits of wondrous life-giving warmth, food, shelter, work, freedom, and love, among infinite other values, these are all real. God is not.”
― Kassandra Dick

“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences of this action? Will it damage my life? Will it damage someone else’s? The answers to those questions are based in reality.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Say nothing you do not know to be true and share nothing you would not defend.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Do not be afraid of being hated. Be afraid of being misunderstood.”
― Kassandra Dick