know

 

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

beware

 

 

Beware of peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

stillness

 

 

 

Don't wait for the world to be still. Find stillness within the world.

Rumi

dying

 

 

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

universe

 

 

Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fir project that got a C-.

Anonymous

destroyers

 

 

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Anaïs Nin

evil man

 

 

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

Sun Tzu

strength

 

 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

loudest

 

 

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

death

 

 

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

Hannah Arendt

future

 

 

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

 Anonymous

home

 

 

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

nature

 

 

 

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

difference

 

 

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

war

 

 

War is a cowardly escape from problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

follow

 

 

 

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler

pills

 

 

One of the hardest pills I've had to swallow was realizing I meant nothing to people that meant a lot to me.

Anonymous

we

 

 

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

June Jordan

arrogant

 

 

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

past

 

 

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

Baruch Spinoza

mindfulness

 

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present movemnt, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Sylvia Boorstein

fear

 

 

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Thomas Aquinas

speech

 

 

Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

Sir Winston Churchill

destination

 

 

 

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

photography

 

 

Photography is an art of observation. it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

brain

 

 

 

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler

mistake

 

 

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

grief

 

 

Grief is the last act of love we have to give those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love. 

Chaplain Robert Orr

fate

 

For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost this is speechless Till some question voice dissolves the spell of it s silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

try

 

 

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three day. For forty-five day. For three months.

Yoko Ono

spiritual

 

 

 

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

shadow

 

 

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one if the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung

cruelty

 

 

 

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca

space

 

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

darkness

 

 

If you're in pitch darkness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

question

 

 

 

There are two sides to every question.

Protagoras

home

 

Home is not where you were born or grew up. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

hardest

 

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

not a king

 

 

 

NOT A KING!!

NOT A KING!!

beauty

 

 

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

dancing

 

 

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

bitterness

 

 

 

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

dismiss

 

 

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding and absurd and not worth thinking about.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

Happy Pride

 

HAPPY PRIDE, NYC

service

 

 

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edleman

age

 

 

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age and certain memories can never fade. 

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

get

 

 

Folks, I'm telling you. birthing is hard and dying is mean-so get yourself a little loving in between.

Langston Hughes

aim

 

 

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

devour

 

 

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

alert

 

 

 

Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn't alert you when it's empty.

Arabic Proverb