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"When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

-Audre Lorde

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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem."

-Howard Zinn

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“When I paint my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish: love must be proved by facts and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”

—Pablo Picasso, Statement, 1923

QOTD

“We have the same spiral in our hair as electricity, tornadoes, whirlwinds, DNA, galaxies!”

-Nekhena Evans

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“In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there has got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and now there has to be change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it is going to built is with extreme methods. And I for one, will join in with anyone, I don’t care what color you are, as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth. Thank you.”

— Malcolm X

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”

—	Barbara de Angelis

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"If the thought of lack – whether it be money, recognition, or love – has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.”

- Eckhart Tolle

*I need to start acknowledging what I have, as opposed to always dwelling on what I DONT have...

Quote of the Day

“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”

- Martin Luther King Jr

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"Your true character is revealed by the clarity of your convictions, the choices you make, and the promises you keep. Hold strongly to your principles and refuse to follow the currents of convenience. What you say and do defines who you are, and who you are... you are forever."

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"The first step to wisdom is to begin by questioning everything; only by doubting everything can we be sure of anything. The last step to wisdom is coming to peace with everything; when we fight to be free we must see things how they are, and not how we want them to be."

Quote of The Day

"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."

--Pearl S. Buck

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”



-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

-Brother David Steindl-Rast

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"When tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a nervous breakdown.... My heart is at work, my soul is awake."

- Mary Margaret Funk, writer.

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"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

-Carl Jung

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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

-Bernice Johnson Reagon

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"Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe