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