ourselves

 

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

self care

Someone said that self care is also choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you.  I felt that.

Anonymous

magic

 

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats

hope

I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell children that there is no hope.

James Baldwin

underestimate

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.

George Carlin 

little bit

I just have a belief that this is only one little bit... the physical world is one little bit of the universe.

George Harrison

peace

May peace prevail on earth and in me. 

Merry Christmas

light

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt 

i am

 

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung

disguise

 

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

Anais Nin

illusion

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labelling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Baba Ramdass

listen

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

peace

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice.

William Faulkner

worth

 

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Bob Marley 

follies

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

love

 

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm

intelligence

 

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

aim

 

Do not be moral. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

boomerangs

 

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel

no voiceless

There's really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Arundhati Roy 

life

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Charles R. Swindall

love

 

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

C.S. Lewis

propaganda

The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley

you

 

The only thing you can do about awful people is not be one of them.

Anonymous

question

I would rather have question that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman

fights

 

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

awareness

 

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

love

 

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

C.S. Lewis

you

 

 

Sometimes You just have to focus on all the people You have around You, and stop chasing the ones who don't give a fuck about You. Sometimes moving on is as simple as that.

John Rosenkilde

happiness

 

 

We need happiness. And happiness, hope and love.

Vincent Van Gogh

love

 

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

you

 

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

upset

 

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

abandon

 

People don't abandon the people they love, they abandon the people they're using

Anonymous

shared

 

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle wil not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

attributed to Lord Buddha

i

 

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

Susan Sontag

life

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

illusions

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.

George Orwell

dead

 

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

life

 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

door

 

When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

you

 

If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.

Rumi

life

 

Life is an illusion a dram; a bubble; a shadow... Nothing is permanent. Nothing is worthy of anger or dispute. Nothing.

attributed to The Buddha

loss

 

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

signs

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

war lived

 

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where is lives...inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

finish

 

You have to finish things-that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Neil Gaiman

focusing

 

The best things in life come from focusing on asking better questions.

Sahil Bloom

illusions

 

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

content

 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao tzu