noble

 

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

cowardly

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

C.S. Lewis 

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