"If You Don't Become The Ocean, You Will Be Seasick Every Day." - Leonard Cohen

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray

Illustration by Dave Merrell

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf

Photo of a single blade of grass under a microscope.

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk

Artwork by Neslon Makamo

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks 

https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/

Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.

“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.