Quotes from Emily Saliers

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.

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.

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

Oh, how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I'd still have two of the same to live.

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

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

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?

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

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

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.