freedom

 

 

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.

Martin Luther King, Jr

betrayal

 

 

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr

responsibility

 

 

 

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr

justice

 

 

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Martin Luther King, Jr

measure

 

 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr

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 moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.Sylvia Boorstein

consequences

 

 

 

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.

John Green

opportunities

 

 

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward

reject

 

 

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

George Orwell, 1984

love

 

 

 

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

John Updike

power

 

 

The power to love, to forgive, to extend a helping hand, to change, to accept, to encourage - these are the things that matter most in life.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

change

 

 

Change is only possible, and all the greater, when the labor and bitter anger of our neighbors is moved by the love and better angels of our nature.

Amanda Gorman

wicked

 

 

 

The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.

Tolstoy

drive out

 

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

ignorance

 

 

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

peace

 

 

may peace prevail on earth

and in me

wisdom

 

 

 

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Carl Jung

world

 

 

 

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Carl Jung

enlightened

 

 

 

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

writing

 

 

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Ivern Ball

conscious

 

 

 

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung

accept

 

 

The heart refused to accept what the eye could see. 

Anonymous

happiness

 

 

 

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

John Barrymore

following

 

 

 

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

dreamer

 

 

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Mike Tyson

dream

 

 

The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as i conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.

C.G. Jung

dark

 

 

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

2026

 

 

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

pay

 

 

People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

illusions

 

 

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions.

Sigmund Freud