habits

The second half of a a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

maturity

One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.

Martin Luther King, Jr

death

 

Death smiles at every man and all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

understand

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung

difficult

 

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

solve

 

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Isaac Asimov

future

 

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

night

I cannot walk down my neighborhood streets in the solitude of night without thinking that night is pleasing to us because, like memory, it erases idle details.

Jorge Luis Borges

found

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Mahershala Ali

transformation

 

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

Patti Smith

respect

 

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

function

 

The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

sanctuary

 

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Herman Hess

right

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

don't

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi 

no one

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

count

 

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

truth

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

insane

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

instant

 

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Joan Didion

tired

 

tired of yesterday's pain creeping in stealing my today, blighting my tomorrow -

d donato

music

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

earth

 

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

time

Time is the school in which we learn.

Joan Didion

stupidity

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Issac Asimov

wisdom

 

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

truth

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

educated

 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristoteles

you

 

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

attributed to Lord Buddha

bonne

je vous souhaite une nouvelle année pleine de lumiere. 

i wish you a new year full of light.