Faith McLay
Artist | Hobbyist

Austria

I ID somewhere along the lines of butch/genderqueer. You can use any pronouns you want to, but I would prefer gender neutral/third gender pronouns (singular they, ze/hir, whatever).

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"When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance of hell." - Franz Kafka

"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell

"Without music life would be an error." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice." – Bertrand Russel

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life." - Bertrand Russell

"Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Many people are too well-educated to speak with a full mouth, they have no qualms however to speak with an empty head." - Oscar Wilde

"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Hermann Hesse

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell

"There is no worse death than the end of hope." - Pelagius

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." - Dale Carnegie

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery." - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then we'll have peace." – Jimi Hendrix

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." – Martin Niemoeller

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." – Sam Keen

"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken." – Bertrand Russell

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." – Bertrand Russell

"Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility." – Bertrand Russell

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid." – Marcus Aurelius

"Assimilation is a lie. It is spiritual erasure." – Lani Ka’ahumanu

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Current Residence: Zell-Oberwinkel
Favourite genre of music: everything from Metallica to Mozart - but metal and Brandi Carlile are both my ultimate <3
Favourite style of art: anything that pleases the eyes, ears or, well, anything... ^^
Operating System: Windows XP
MP3 player of choice: iPod Touch
Skin of choice: the one I'm currently in
Personal Quote: To fear love is to fear life,and those who fear life are already three parts dead.- Bertrand Russell