Best 38 quotes of Emily Saliers on MyQuotes

Always tell the truth and be true.

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

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.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Eating wholesome foods and getting plenty of sleep is crucial for me.

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

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.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

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.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

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.

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.

I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

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.

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.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

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.

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.

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

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.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.

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.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

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.

I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong

So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand) And if it ever was there and it left Does it mean it was never true And to exist it must elude Is that why I think these things of you?