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  • #1
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #2
    David Sedaris
    “Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?”
    David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

  • #3
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #4
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #13
    Pema Chödrön
    “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”
    Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #14
    Pema Chödrön
    “We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”
    Pema Chodron

  • #15
    Pema Chödrön
    “The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
    Pema Chodron

  • #16
    Pema Chödrön
    “I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.”
    Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #17
    Pema Chödrön
    “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
    Pema Chodron

  • #18
    Pema Chödrön
    “Abandon hope.”
    Pema Chodron

  • #19
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #20
    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    alice walker, The Color Purple

  • #21
    Alice Walker
    “HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
    HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
    HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
    HELPED are those who love others unsplit off from their faults; to them will be given clarity of vision.
    HELPED are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception, and realize an partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
    HELPED are those who love the Earth, their mother, and who willingly suffer that she may not die; in their grief over her pain they will weep rivers of blood, and in their joy in her lively response to love, they will converse with the trees.
    HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
    HELPED are those who risk themselves for others' sakes; to them will be given increasing opportunities for ever greater risks. Theirs will be a vision of the word in which no one's gift is despised or lost.
    HELPED are those who strive to give up their anger; their reward will be that in any confrontation their first thoughts will never be of violence or of war.
    HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
    HELPED are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgiveness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.
    HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
    HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
    HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
    HELPED are those who love the lesbian, the gay, and the straight, as they love the sun, the moon, and the stars. None of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
    HELPED are those who love the broken and the whole; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
    HELPED are those who do not join mobs; theirs shall be the understanding that to attack in anger is to murder in confusion.
    HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another--plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid.
    HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
    HELPED are those who love and actively support the diversity of life; they shall be secure in their differences.
    HELPED are those who KNOW.”
    Alice Walker

  • #22
    Alice Walker
    “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
    Alice Walker

  • #23
    Alice Walker
    “Be nobody's darling;
    Be an outcast.
    Take the contradictions
    Of your life
    And wrap around
    You like a shawl,
    To parry stones
    To keep you warm. ”
    Alice Walker

  • #24
    Alice Walker
    “Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
    Alice Walker
    tags: war

  • #25
    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #26
    Alice Walker
    “we are the ones we have been waiting for”
    Alice Walker

  • #27
    Alice Walker
    “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #28
    Alice Walker
    “Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: love

  • #29
    Alice Walker
    “On Stripping Bark from Myself

    (for Jane, who said trees die from it)

    Because women are expected to keep silent about
    their close escapes I will not keep silent
    and if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone will
    please
    mark the spot
    where I fall and know I could not live
    silent in my own lies
    hearing their 'how nice she is!'
    whose adoration of the retouched image
    I so despise.

    No. I am finished with living
    for what my mother believes
    for what my brother and father defend
    for what my lover elevates
    for what my sister, blushing, denies or rushes
    to embrace.

    I find my own
    small person
    a standing self
    against the world
    an equality of wills
    I finally understand.

    Besides:

    My struggle was always against
    an inner darkness: I carry within myself
    the only known keys
    to my death – to unlock life, or close it shut
    forever. A woman who loves wood grains, the color
    yellow
    and the sun, I am happy to fight
    all outside murderers
    as I see I must.”
    Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

  • #30
    Alice Walker
    “Like I said...fine with me.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #31
    “Even
    After
    All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,

    "You owe me."

    Look
    What happens
    With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.”
    Hafiz



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