SF Is An Experience In Living

"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living"

-William Saroyan

Make Friends With Ourselves

“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”

-Unknown

Be Yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

-Oscar Wilde

Triumph Over It

"The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it."

- Augustus William Hare

Forgivness Is Letting Go Of The Past

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."

–Gerald Jampolsky

The Most Important Kind Of Freedom Is To Be What You Really Are

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”

-Jim Morrison

Life's Wheel Of Fortune

“Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it”

-Tupac Shakur

Make Your Life A Mission

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."

-Arnold Glasgow

That Is Why I Dance

“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.”

-Hans Bos

The Responsibility That Comes With His Freedom

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

-Bob Dylan

Life Is A Daring Adventure

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

-Helen Keller

Energy Of Love

"[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love."

-Laura Esquivel

We Must Make Our Ladder

“In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.”

-Victor Hugo

Burning Cathedral Of The Summer

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."

-Violette Leduc

Live Out Loud

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud”

 -Emile Zola

Jaron Lanier

“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting.  In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.”

 -Jaron Lanier 

Comedian Who Could Dance

“I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance”

-Rita Hayworth

Realize My Dreams

      

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

-Man Ray 

Refuse To Fall Down

“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Focus On Your Gifts and Vision

"We must let go of the old in order to birth the new. Focus on your gifts and vision, not your fears and failings. Stay in the present moment. Release whatever is not aligned with your heart and soul. Trust that whatever us falling apart and falling away is making for something better"

-Stephanie Austin