Stolen: Words that Matter

I have a little notebook which I received from a friend as a birthday gift quite a few years ago with a little stick figure boy on it with rocks sailing at his head. "Boys are dumb. Throw rocks at them" it says. Well, I don't exactly prescribe to that belief, as it wouldn't be fair with my other dealings, but I began writing quotes in it that I liked, found inspiring or funny, or that I just wanted to remember. So, with that, I am stealing this idea from my lovely friend Lola's page and including some of my faves:

Words are amazing in their power - they can soothe, they can empower, they can hurt, they can heal, they can inspire. There are some quotes that I go back to to find centre, to remind myself of what's important...

(In no particular order...)

"Music and me, we have a special bond. Sometimes we meet in a dark room and slow dance, alone, together. Sometimes we hook up in a jam-packed arena, and yet we're the only two souls there. Sometimes I put headphones on and can hear the universe calling. Ah, music, sweet music. When it's on, when all of the rhythmic planets have aligned and I can close my eyes and feel both immersion and transcendence, I know I'm right where I want to be." - Mike Mettler-

"If you go to a big city, and a university is a big city, you are bound to run into Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Stay home, stay home." - Kurt Vonnegut-

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?" -Kurt Vonnegut-

"Planet Earth is an angry place; a searing bauble of rage. All this fury, roaring around the ether - and where does it go? The answer is it simply dissipates, flitters up towards the clouds, where it hangs around making pigeons sick and causing thunderstorms. Not good enough. We've got to work out a way of harnessing all this spare rage and using it to power our kettles. Come on, science. Hurry up. You wouldn't like us when we're angry." -Charlie Brooker -

"Never join a group without being confident of your ability to speak up in disagreement." - Heather Mallick -

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed that is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead -

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." - Jacob Bronowski-

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." - The Talmud -

"Interesting how, if you are silent, democracy is working. If you speak up, democracy is not for you." - Beth Atcheson -

"The body is lazy, the mind is vibrant and the soul is luminous." - B.K.S. Iyengar -

"Qui de nous n'a cherche le calme dans un chant?" - Victor Hugo-

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung -

"Legislation may not change the heart, but it will restrain the heartless." - Martin Luther King, Jr. -

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide -

"The pollution you breathe may be your own." - graffiti -

"The things we perceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar... when something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of colour doesn't it? It stands out, it shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive." - James Redfield -

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." -W.B. Yeats -

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning." - Mark Twain -

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." - Dr. Mark Vonnegut -