Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

solzhenitsyn

"It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him."

tolstoy

“Everyone thinks to change the world but no one thinks to change themselves.”

jacob

“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”

Gauguin

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Byron

'What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?'

Watts

'Do things wu-wei, by doing nothing. Achieve without trying to achieve anything -- savour the taste of what you cannot taste.'

Simone de Beauvoir

"...the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself."

Signifying Nothing

hdt “Things do not change; we change.”

Confucius

"Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life."

J.C.

“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”

Bella Abzug

"A Woman's Place is in the House... and the Senate."