listen

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

despair

 

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Kierkegaard

what

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

caution

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

letting go

"Was it hard?" I asked.  "Letting go?" I nodded. "Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real."

Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

upset

 

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

content

 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao tzu

moon

 

The moon, like a celestial lantern, illuminated the earth's nocturnal tapestry.

Virginia Woolf

9/11

 

We will NOT FORGET!!

(internet photo)

indifference

 

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

everything

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

compassion

 

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

god

 

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

observer

 

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Adam Smith

destiny

 

Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman

judge

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

sights

 

I don't ask the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Mary Oliver

time

 

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

task

 

Where you fear is, there is your task.

Carl Jung

anxiety

 

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Alan Watts

tolerance

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Fyodor Dosteovsky

fly

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dean Stojanovic

travel

 

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.

Aldous Huxley

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't now you left open.

John Barrymore

prove

 

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.

Franz Kafka

music

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

love

 

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

madness

To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

silence

Silence's importance is increasing as I'm getting older...we need it for balance, to get our brains empty. Just eating information makes you unable to move.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

different

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Baruch Spinoza

person

 

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

distinction

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

we

 

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

music

 

The universe is making music all the time.

Tom Waits

absence

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

François de La Rochefoucauld

impermanence

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous 

religion

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

learned

 

I've learned silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

Khalil Gibran

kill

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

recognize

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell

peace

 

Peace is not something to hope for in the future. Peace is something that we can be in every moment. If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope.

Thich Nhat Hanh

love

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

matter

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe...so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

John Fowles

argue

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

even if

 

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it.

the Dalai Lama

opinion

 

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

settle

 

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

happiness

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to fine it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

infinite

 

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini