signs

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

war lived

 

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where is lives...inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

finish

 

You have to finish things-that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Neil Gaiman

focusing

 

The best things in life come from focusing on asking better questions.

Sahil Bloom

illusions

 

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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

wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius 

can't find

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

truth

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

illusion

 

The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

asylum

 

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

destroy

 

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy

live

 

I live in my dreams...that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Hermann Hess

tolerance

 

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

poison

 

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Adam Smith

suffers

 

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But the silence of good people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

compassion

 

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

arise

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

changes

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

Frida Kahlo

words

 

...and the time has come to say the words we want to hear.

David Lynch

dancing

 

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

everyone

 

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.

Paulo Coelho

life

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

price

 

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

Plato

contribute

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

divine

 

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman

peace

 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

escape

 

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

journey

 

When setting out on a journey never seek advice from those who have never left home.

Rumi

trusted

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George McDonald

function

The real function of art is to change mental patterns...making new thought possible.

Jean Dubuffet

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

shock

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Renault

life

 

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Hypatia

actions

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

Harry S. Truman

love

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

Anne Sexton

once

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

destiny

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de la Fontaine

risk

 

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took blossom.

Anaïs Nin

follow

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler 

alert

 

If you're really alert, then you see the life that exists beyond the life that is on top.

Toni Morrison

soul

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

Rumi 

kill

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

Voltaire

love

 

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

Thich Nhat Hahn

religion

 

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

Lucius Annaeus Senecca

worries

 

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain

comfort

 

I am not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Jon Stewart

emotion

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

measure

 

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein