believe

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them.

Philippe Petit

taking

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

everybody

 

Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see.

André Kertész

change

Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

Anonymous

used

 

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Salman Rushdie

journey

 

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

Philippe Petit

sensuality

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

explore

It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching,  not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge

Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek

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

conformity

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Earl Nightengale

freedom

 

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

you

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

power

 

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

attention

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer, is the same thing as prayer.

Simone Weil

circumstances

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

David Hume

emotions

During the 1960s, I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Andy Warhol

dealing

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

reality

Reality is a question of perspective.

Salman Rushdie

deal

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

blossoms

 

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde

life

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyere

leaves

 

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, loves leaves a memory no one can steal.

from an Irish headstone

hate

 

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Kurt Vonnegut

truth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

empires

 

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

Van Lente

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

strength

 

There are two ways of exerting strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. 

Booker T. Washington

light

A light here requires a shadow there.

Virginia Wolf

mask

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

limits

 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer