Emily Saliers Quotes

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

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

When I'm home, I cook. I love cooking for people.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt.

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

But the question drowns in it's futility
And even I have got to laugh at me

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

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.

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

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

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.

We must love while these moments are still called today.

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

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

What was once your pain, will be your home.

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.

Always tell the truth and be true.

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

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

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

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.

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