Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Saint John of the Cross

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.

George Bernard Shaw

BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry, The Boy with a

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Lemony Snicket

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Steve Maraboli

As I grow older and olderAnd totter towards the tomb,I find I care less and lessWho goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers, That's Why I

In our many inevitable roles each day, if we wish to be wise, we can increasingly be conscious of our offhand potential to damage or bless.

Mark Demoss

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anon.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch