Saturday, February 29, 2020

silence





It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

Friday, February 28, 2020

pay





There is no escape -- we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Thursday, February 27, 2020

sources





Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

truth





It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

unless



The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

Steve Maraboli

Monday, February 24, 2020

truth





The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

Sunday, February 23, 2020

ignorance





Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

Saturday, February 22, 2020

love




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

Carl Jung

Friday, February 21, 2020

shaped




We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Lord Buddha

Thursday, February 20, 2020

substance




The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

character




Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

existence




It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Monday, February 17, 2020

made for




A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sunday, February 16, 2020

young




I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Saturday, February 15, 2020

wisest




I am the wisest man alive, for one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

Friday, February 14, 2020

friend





A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

Thursday, February 13, 2020

dinosaur




I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

above





High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Mollie Marti

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

everything





Everything that is, casts a shadow.

Neil Gaiman

Monday, February 10, 2020

abyss


What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are unable to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

Monday, February 3, 2020

happiness





Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Sunday, February 2, 2020

occhiolism




Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective in the grandness of the vast scope of the Universe.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Saturday, February 1, 2020

criticize





Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan