“it matters what voices you listen to, it matters what books you read, it matters what you buy, what you do with your money if you have it and how you interact with those who don’t have it, it matters who you surround yourself with and why, it matters where you put your life labor, it matters where you put your love labor, it matters where you put your creative labor and what you create and why, it matters what you let into your life and what you are willing to live with, it matters what your relationship to the planet is or isn’t, it matters how you respond to danger at the door…even if it’s at your neighbor’s door.”
Tag Archives: Uplifting Words
Inside You
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
-Rumi
Dreaming the Future
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
-Victor Hugo
“My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
-Khalil Gabran
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-Harriet Tubman
Equality
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
-Audre Lorde
“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
-Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
-Joss Whedon
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
-Gloria Steinem
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
– John F. Kennedy
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
-Plato, The Republic
The Greatest Gift
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
-Lao Tzu
Sunlight in a Wood…
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
~ C.S. Lewis
Sacred Water
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.”
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyl
Sacred water, this precious gift holds our very existence.
Sweet life itself is not possible without water.
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans;
in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
-Kahlil Gibran
I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux
The Wanderer
“Let yourself fall in love with nature. Visit new places and discover your own back yard. Spend more time outside watching sunrises and sunsets. Make time to star gaze. Stand barefoot in the beautiful earth and reconnect your soul. To the energy that created you. You are a part of a magnificent universe. Take the time to be present with it all. Allow nature to feed your soul. Those who wander will never feel lost.”
-Carly Marie
Visit new places
and discover your own back yard
Spend more time outside watching sunrises
and sunsets
Make time to star gaze
Stand barefoot on the beautiful earth. To the energy that created you. You are a part of a magnificent universe. Take the time to be present with it all. Allow nature to feed your soul. Those who wander will never feel lost.”
Fall in Love with Existence
“The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar,
stumble,
and flourish,
as you learn to fall in love with existence.
We were born to live my dear not to merely exist.”
-Becca Lee
Remembering How to Be
“If you ever find yourself empty from something you cannot know or name, find a stretch of ocean, a field, or mountainside, or even clouds or trees. Because there are 1,000 simple ways to fill your tired soul so you can remember how to be, how to see, and most importantly, how to breathe.”
-Victoria Erickson
