death

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami

empathy

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.

George Elliot

important

 

In life, it's important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.

Anonymous

awake

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

Hafiz

surrender

 

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

Toni Morrison

see

 

If we could clearly see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change.

attributed to Lord Buddha

coward

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

Octavia Butler

show

I wish I could show you... the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

escape

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

don't

Don't cry because it came to an end; smile because it happened.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

silence

 

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. it has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Chaim Potok

when

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

problem

 

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

weird

 

In the sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Damon Albarn

leave

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Anonymous

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 Hesse

free

 

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Toni Morrison

don't care

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

know

 

If you don't know your own worth and value, then do not expect someone else to calculate it for you.

rusafu

judgment

 

Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgment.

A.A. Milne

you

 

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Henri Nouwen

want

 

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

desire

 

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf

worry

 

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

Mitzi Chandler

understands

 

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

art

 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding one. 

Hevelock Ellis

silence

Silence is so freaking loud.

Sara Dessen

name

 

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

wonder

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

chance

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

changed

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho