crying

 

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

place

In the silent place where loneliness is found I'll wander through the open door to look for you.

Françoise Hardy, If You Listen

define

 

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Audre Lorde

mirroring

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.

James Baldwin

blindness

 

Cataract is the third biggest cause of blindness. Religion and politics remain the first two.

Anonymous

present

 

The present is all we have to live in. Or to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

superstition

 

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle.

Thomm Quackenbush 

important

The most important think is that you love what you are doing, and the second is that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.

Charles Eames

camera

 

The camera is like a typewriter, in the sense in which you can use the machine to write a love letter, a book, or a business memo.

Duane Michals

peace

 

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

law

 

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Cicero

time

 

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

Paulo Coelho

eye

 

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

Gregory Maguire

privilege

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius (attributed to)

problem

The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell 

remember

 

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

happiness

 

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac

deception

 

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinons.

Leonardo Da Vinci

experience

 

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley