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I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.
Emily Saliers
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Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.
Emily Saliers
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Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.
Emily Saliers
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The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.
Emily Saliers
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I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.
Emily Saliers
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Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
Emily Saliers
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Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.
Emily Saliers
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Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.
Emily Saliers
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I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.
Emily Saliers
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The prize is always worth the rocky ride.
Emily Saliers
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It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.
Emily Saliers
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Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
Emily Saliers
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The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.
Emily Saliers
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...science and violence turned silence to rage.
Emily Saliers
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Always tell the truth and be true.
Emily Saliers
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Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.
Emily Saliers
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What was once your pain, will be your home.
Emily Saliers
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We must love while these moments are still called today.
Emily Saliers
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Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.
Emily Saliers
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Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.
Emily Saliers
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I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes.
Emily Saliers
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I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.
Emily Saliers
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Eating wholesome foods and getting plenty of sleep is crucial for me.
Emily Saliers
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I cry when I feel like crying.
Emily Saliers
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Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.
Emily Saliers
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Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.
Emily Saliers
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The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.
Emily Saliers
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I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.
Emily Saliers
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Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.
Emily Saliers
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We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.
Emily Saliers
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Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.
Emily Saliers
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You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.
Emily Saliers
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If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.
Emily Saliers
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You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.
Emily Saliers
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Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.
Emily Saliers
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And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.
Emily Saliers
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Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.
Emily Saliers
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I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.
Emily Saliers
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No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.
Emily Saliers
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The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.
Emily Saliers
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You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.
Emily Saliers
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I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.
Emily Saliers
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Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
Emily Saliers
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I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.
Emily Saliers
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So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.
Emily Saliers