war

 

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

compassion

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.

Albert Einstein

insane

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

silence

Silence, you know, is something that can't be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That's why they fill it with noise all the while.

John Berger

ugly

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Mat Haig, The Humans

inside

 

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Clarice Lispector

unite

 

Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

struck

 I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the contest of community.

bell hooks

without

 

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Marcel Marceau

mission

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

warriors

The fiercest warriors, do not carry a sword to the battlefield; instead, they are armed with wisdom.

RJ Intindola

forget

 

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you'd stop living to impress people.

Christopher Walken

hide and seek

After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.

Callie Hunter

if

 

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

one

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Eric Fromm

anger

Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous. It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.

Ursula K. Le Guin

hide-and-seek

 

I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are "it" all their lives - hopelessly it.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

slaves

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Bertrand Russell

wound

 

What is terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakmi

man

 

It is the man with no love in his heart who talks of rights and duties.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

you

 

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

James Baldwin

contribute

 

I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture I was living in.

David Bowie

live

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

understand

 

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

Carl Jung

death

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

Marcus Aurelius

discourage

 

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

maturity

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

Martin Luther King, Jr

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