i struggle with words, and writing. being somewhat dislexic and more that a little adhd. but i like to listen the words of some people. these are some of my favorites.

arthur schopenhauer

• life is a constant process of dying.
• we forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
• the world is everything that is the case.
• talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
• compassion is the basis of morality.
• a man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
• every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
• the two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
• the first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
• great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

jane goodall

• the least i can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
• only if we understand, can we care. only if we care, will we help. only if we help shall they be saved.
• you cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. what you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
• every individual matters. every individual has a role to play. every individual makes a difference.

h.h. the 14th dalai lama

• be kind whenever possible. it is always possible.
• the purpose of our lives is to be happy.
• my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness.
• if you want others to be happy, practice compassion. if you want to be happy, practice compassion.
• be kind whenever possible. it is always possible.
• silence is sometimes the best answer.
• happiness is not something ready-made. it comes from your own actions.
• our prime purpose in this life is to help others. and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

bernardo kastrop

• what most people mean by 'free will' is that my choices are determined, but they are determined by me.
• the universe can only know itself by expressing itself fully in a computationally irreducible way.
• your confusion arises from a fundamental inversion: it is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head.
• matter is a representation or appearance of what is, in and of itself, mental processes.
• consciousness is all there is.
• the 'outer' world is simply the 'inner' world viewed from a different perspective.
• we are all dissociated alters of a single, universal consciousness.
• materialism is a story we tell ourselves.
• reality is experience.

carlo rovelli

• the world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events.
• time is ignorance.
• we are made of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.
• the notion of 'now' refers to what we are doing here, and nowhere else.
• but it isn't absence that causes sorrow. it is affection and love. without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. for this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.
• the world is a network of events, not of things.
• perhaps time is not a flowing river, but a murmuring, a shimmering, a play of mirrors.
• we are time. we are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. we are memory. we are nostalgia. we are longing for a future that will not come.
• the beauty of the world is not in the things that are, but in the things that become.
• reality is made of layers of realities. like in dreams.

patti smith

• to me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. it's freedom.
• never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
• in art and dream may you proceed with abandon. in life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
• grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. but if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
• it was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

henry rollins

• questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
• i believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. to not be like your parents. to not be like your friends. to be yourself. to cut yourself out of stone.
• loneliness adds beauty to life. it puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
• knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
• i am an anti-social human being. i prefer being left alone.
• the idea that fame is anything more than just a measurement of how many people need your services is ridiculous.

dorothy day

• people say, what is the sense of our small effort? they cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step after another. a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
• the greatest challenge is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
• we have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
• the gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
• i see christ in you.
• we have been given a love that is unconditional. we have been given a love that is without limit.
• the mystery of the poor is this: that they are jesus.
• we cannot love god unless we love each other.
• we cannot love god unless we love our neighbor.
• don't call me a saint. i don't want to be dismissed so easily.
• the trouble with this world is that people are inconsistent.

iggy pop

• i’m not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman’ because i don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.
• the only thing that you can do is do your best.
• i'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
• i'm not going to be a monkey for anyone.
• i'm not afraid to die. i'm more afraid of not living.
• i'm not a role model. i'm a roach.
• i think the most important thing you can do is to be yourself.
• i think people have to be educated to see that beauty is in everything.
• the future is unwritten.
• i'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.
• i never had any social graces.

johnny cash

• you build on failure. you use it as a stepping stone. close the door on the past. you don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. you don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
• life is rough so you gotta be tough.
• sometimes i am two people. johnny is the nice one. cash causes all the trouble.
• i wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town.
• i’m just trying to matter.
• you've got to try to do the right thing at the right time.
• there's a whole lot more to me than you'll ever see.
• i learn from my mistakes. it’s a very painful way to learn, but without the pain, seemingly, i don’t learn.
• you’ve got to know your limitations. i don’t know what my limitations are.
• i’m not really concerned about what people say about me. i don’t care.
• i love the things that you can’t buy with money.