change

 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

desires

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

hold

Don't hold on for dear life - hold life dearly.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

happiness

 

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

loneliness

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others inadmissible.

Carl Jung

retrospect

 

Stupidity is one of two thing we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King

clear-sightedness

 

There can be no true goodness, not true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus, The Plague

attention

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

anxiety

The anxiety you feel about the future reduces your enjoyment of the present.

anonymous

everything

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

battle

 

That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Haruki Marukami, IQ84

HRH Queen Elizabeth II

 

HRH Queen Elizabeth II

21 april 1926 - 08 sept 2022

may her missions be accomplished

change

 

I have to change to stay the same.

Willem de Kooning

free

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Salman Rushdie

believe

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

Philippe Petit

everybody

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

André Kertész

secret

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Iris Murdoch

no one

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Augustine of Hippo 

light

A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul's tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.

Eric Berne

compassion

When love and compassion are present in us, and we send them outward then that is truly prayer.

Thich Nhat Hanh

easier

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

the queen

 

   God save the Queen!!!

Queen Elizabeth II

 

Queen Elizabeth II

21 April 1926 - 08 Sept 2022

may her missions be accomplished

limiting

 

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mills

your

 

So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

yesterday

 

It's no use going back to yesterday, I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

behavior

 

Changed behavior is the only apology, otherwise, it's just manipulation.

Maranda Pleasant

affliction

The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we do't know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.

Thich Nhat Hanh