anxiety

 

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Khalil Gilbran

observe

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

if

 

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Toni Morrison

love

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

injustice

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

better

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

André Gide

fear

 

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

journey

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

lying

 

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

cave

 

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

joy

 

Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

other

 

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

flowers

 

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

you

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

luck

 

Luck in what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

lives

 

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

trouble

 

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

T.S. Eliot

solution

 

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.

Mary Shelley

responsibility

 

It's never the responsibility of the oppressed to prove their humanity. If deficiency is revealed, it's in the souls of those who require proof.

Cole Arthur Riley

life

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

learning

 

Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in.

Michelle Obama

silent

 

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

burden

 

Sometimes we don't realize how heavy a burden can be until it is lifted off our shoulders.

Anonymous

future

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

follies

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

truth

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung 

music

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche