A Great Distraction
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
–Malala Yousafzai
Sticky Note Quotes
I am
“I am the thinker that creates the thoughts that create the things.”
–Dr. Johnnie Coleman
Life Is:
A mystery, Unfold it.
A journey, Walk it.
Painful, Endure it.
Beautiful, See it.
A joke, Laugh at it.
A song, Sing it.
A flower, Smell it.
Wonderful, Enjoy it.
A candle, Light it.
Precious, Don’t waste it.
A gift, Open it.
Love, Give it.
Unlimited, Go for it.
Light, Shine in it.
–Iyanla Vanzant
Business
When I had a minute or two,
I’d throw a poem into the typewriter
and try to work out a line or get a transition from one stanza to the next.
But the business world gives you almost no time
to do anything but business.
You are selling you soul to the devil all day
and trying to buy it back at night.
–James Dickey
Open To
An English poet, Philip Larkin, said that poetry doesn’t start with an idea; it starts with a poem…
You have to be open to mystery. If you are open to it, mystery will come.
If you’re not, why should it, actually?
–Lucille Clifton
Its Own Name
Art doesn’t go to sleep in the beds that we make for it. It runs away as soon as you pronounce its name; what it likes is anonymity. Its best moments are when it forgets its own name.
–Jean Dubuffet, 1990
The Best Feeling
What We All Are
Dance
Those who hear not the music
think the dancers mad
–Shakespeare
The Silent Killer
Everywhere I went rape was the silent killer. But it became quickly clear to me that these women were not just the collateral damage of war. Rape was a strategic, organized, scheme to destroy entire communities.
–Angelina Jolie on working with the U.N, from Glamour’s The Guardian Angels article.
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