" Awake! Arise, or be forever fallen "
( Satan's first words to his fallen angels after being cast down )
John Milton ( Paradise Lost )
"With trust they'll say what they know, without it they'll show who they are instead." - Myself
"If I say it it means nothing, but if they say it it means everything." - Myself
"When people are prone to unease towards me by default, how much they trust me in spite of that works as a gauge of progress." - Myself
"Independence is about the freedom of choice, not a lack of codependency. When I am tied down, beaten, enthralled... that is my truest expression of freedom, that is when I can be me. Living a life alone, unable to connect? Those are far, far more brutal shackles. I can walk away from a person, but I cannot walk away from myself." - Tangent thought quote
"As long as you care about what others see you as, you will always be their prisoner"
"the usefulness of a cup is simple, it's emptiness."
"truly the greatest gift you have to give, is one of your own self transformation."
"In silence, one finds the true anchors of the universe"
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubber
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes. - Georges Carpentier
Not a shred of evidence exists in the favor that life is serious. - Brendan Gill
All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson