Sunlight

When a tree falls in the forest, it leaves a gap in the canopy. Sunlight that younger trees and underbrush rush to claim. I see these harassers falling, and I wonder about the forest that will grow in the sunlight they're no longer taking up.
--Annalee Flower Horne

Change

Removing shame through deep social interactions and replacing abject isolation with genuine community greatly effects physiological change in a human being's brain.
--Z. Terach

Politics

The dynamics of the attention economy are structurally set up to undermine the human will. If politics is an expression of our human will, on individual and collective levels, then the attention economy is directly undermining the assumptions that democracy rests on.
--James Williams

Breath

The anxiety around sex is of the same order as the apprehension we feel in the presence of anything that still has the breath of God in it, that has not been flattened out with conscious intentions and explanations.
--Thomas Moore

Marvelous

How many kinds of love
Might there be in the world,
And how many formations might they make
And who am I ever
To imagine I could know
Such a marvelous business?
--Mary Oliver

Deeply

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
--Ram Dass

Open

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
--Muriel Rukeyser

WTF

Of all the great cosmic questions, WTF still strikes me as one of the most pressing, relevant, and ultimately humane.
--Christopher Hitchens

Kids

Republicans want life to begin at conception so they can convince themselves the kids they're attracted to are at least nine months older than they seem.
--Megan Amram

Sorrows

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Do not hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.
--Matt Haig

Careless

They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Singing

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
--Bertolt Brecht (1939)

Indispensable

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body.
--Tim Kreider

Real

More and more, the ignorant of the land think they, and they alone, are the "real Americans." Those who can think logically and rationally are called elites, atheists and communists.
--Carole A. Dunn (June 2010)

Political

It wasn't a political decision, except insofar as everything a woman does with her body that isn't letting someone else dictate what she ought to do with it is a political decision.
--Hillary Brenhouse

Citizen

You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.
--Rebecca Solnit

Death

And I hope that you die,
And your death'll come soon.
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon.
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed.
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
--Bob Dylan (Masters of War)

Back Together

It's like every day you have to get up, put your heart back together, and get going again. What a time.
--Linda Holmes

Fucked

In hindsight, we were all fucked the moment "this is not normal" superseded "this is wrong" as a political argument.
--David Rudin

Magical

Evidently, the prospect that the world at its deepest level rests on a mystery we cannot solve this side of death is so terrifying to some that our wondrous dogs must be regarded as nothing more than meat machines lest their true and astonishing nature should cause us to consider how magical is our very existence.
--Dean Koontz

Lost

The Civil War is still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably it can still be lost.
--Barbara Fields