curtain

 

No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide.

James Baldwin

heal

 

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

Hippocrates

loudness

 

The loudness noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

sign

 

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

dialogue

 

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Thich Nhat Hahn

no need

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf 

solitary

 

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

bell hooks

education

 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

believer

You can't convince a believer of anything: for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

Carl Sagan

art

 

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Vincent Van Gogh

relationship

It was after the relationship ended and the fog cleared, that I realized the relationship was so much worse than I thought.

Maria Consiglio

everything

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

André Gide

Paris

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Gertrude Stein

death

There are many causes for death and ache of living is among them.

Mahmoud Darwish

loneliness

 

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to commnicate the things that seem important to you.

Carl Jung

happiness

 

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

violence

Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry.

Rod Sterling

trouble

 

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T.S. Eliot

decide

Stop trusting that the arc of the moral universe will simply bend toward justice -- and decide to be arc benders.

John Pavolvitz

between

 

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Khalil Gibran

saints

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut 

foolishness

 

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

abundance

 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

love

 

When you love and trust people more than they deserve, surely they will hurt you more than you deserve.

Paulo Coelho

flowers

 

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Anne Frank

freedom

 

People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

conscious

 

Until you make the subconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl June

evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal 

photography

 

Photography is the instinct of hunting withtout the desire to kill. It's the angel hunt... You track, you aim, you fire, and click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal.

Chris Marker

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

wrong

 

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

destination

 

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

hell

 

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

abundance

 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

daily

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Virginia Woolf

foolishness

 

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

opposition

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

memories

Memories that come between waking and sleeping in the somnolent half light of morning.

Tracy Hamby

best

 

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

everything

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Andre Gide

they

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.

James Baldwin

books

 

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

Wole Soyinka

lie

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

evil

 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

power

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

reality

 

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

nothing

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Elliot

truth

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

purpose

 

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set a person free from the ghosts and imprisoning effects of the past.

Harry Guntrip

solve

 

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein