"autumn is a second spring,
when every leaf is a flower"

Camus

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of ( insert god of choice here ).
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of (god) that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson

"The gay community is one of the most balkanized, stratified, class-conscious, race-avoiding, man hating, woman dumping sub-cultures in America.
We have separate bars for men and women, separate bars for blacks and whites, separate circles between young and old and separate rewards for the toned and the untoned.
We're almost as scared of the transgendered as straight people are.
We live in the same social apartheid as they do, except we've only added sex, beauty and muscle tone to the hierarchy"

Michael Alvear ( The Express )

"live to the point of tears"

Camus

It's not the critic who counts.

It's not the man who points out where the grown man stumbles, or how the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who actually knows the great enthusiams, the great devotions, and spends his himself in a worthy cause; who if he wins knows the triumph of high achievement, but who if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

"I do think it is the responsibility of every citizen to be an activist about something.
If you aren't, then you're not being a decent human being"

Larry Kramer
( ACT UP co-founder )

whenever I decide something with kindness,
I usually make the right decision

“There are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. Individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all looking different. Everything that has been on earth has been different from any other thing. That is what I love: the differentness, the uniqueness of all things and the importance of life… I see something that seems wonderful; I see the divineness in ordinary things”

Diane Arbus