When I see back I understand that trying to put my creative self aside was to choke myself. Let us not choke on ourselves. There's important things you need to deal with that is waiting for you while you're getting out of your pretend life.

To withstand what others want you to be is quite a feat, to break free and be your own is courage and stubbornness spliced in the direction you just can't ignore any longer in life.

To stand aside and watch what goes on, instead of getting your life done.

Shattered dreams, silence screams, I do my best, to lay that to rest, but nothing goes away, unless you fix it right away, and how to move on, when you're stuck in all that's wrong.

There's so much to enjoy in this world if we could just get out of our brains for a few moments.

Andy Warhol in his wildest imaginings would not believe what he predicted, there is no room for beauty or creativity, we have wring it dry with this spiritual bankruptcy called fame and desire and endless need to be noticed, this isn't how it was when i started out - Sandra Bernhard

What is it about you that fascinate so, it positions me between the uplifted and the low.

Not only am I blue, I am angry too!

God is looking to see how the world does. She looks at it with one eye only. Two eyes can only take so much.

It's your personality that intrigues me. It's not your pay, your grade or your stuff, it is the stuff inside that matters. The stuff that shines through everytime you're breathing.

There's a huge difference between just knowing and actually realizing. I am just starting to realize..

Once we're blue, we can't do anything to get to you.

How do we stain our auras with our personalities so that we can remember us in our next lives?

I don't really care for anything except love and art. Everything else makes me feel ambivalent.

How is it possible to be totally honest? Do we perhaps just strive and work towards honesty throughout our lives?

I timetravel everyday, my memories make it easy.

When we don't see the darkness within ourselves, we've lost the dimensions of our light.

We're designed to love, to show how we're all capable of loving. But as with everything else, some people take it too far. Obsession, hate and anger stem from too much love, so all in moderation. Love dearly, and feel the connection grow stronger every day.

Never stop moving! We're meant to evolutionize ourselves!

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. - Anita Roddick

I always wear green.

Sometimes it takes getting ill before we realize how good it is to be well. We might fear death, but we may accept an end to being ill.

I believe in no certain truth other than what makes me glow and what makes me smile in the moment.

Dance collects you, positions you closer to your real self. A dance self is more real than a talk self.

If you do what you're supposed to to, you shouldn't feel guilty.

We fight for titles to fill out our own emptiness, when in fact labeling actually makes us more hollow.

I wanna love, and then learn so that I learn to love even better.

There will never be another day just like this, so I see no reason for not celebrating it just the way I want. I find there's a reason to enjoy every single day! Your best self, your happiest smile, your best scent; none of it can wait until tomorrow!

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Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. R. Frost