vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change world.

Joel A. Barker

destination

 

My destination is no longer a place... rather a new way of seeing... 

Marcel Proust

space

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

best

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

William Wordsworth

tragedy

The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Norman Cousins

death

 

Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.

Carl Gustav Jung

reality

 


Reality is so interesting that I want to add nothing to it; I always wanted to just record it.

Jan Lukas

task

 

We live in a fantasy world, a  world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

imitation

 

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

truths

 

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

enemy

 

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

anxious

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

stupidity

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan 

grief

 

I sat with anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis

plants

 

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rahindranath Tagore

passing

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

Anonymous

dreams

 
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us that we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

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

justice

 

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

avoid

 

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

Ayn Rand

curiosity

 

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

courageous

 

The simple step of a courageous individual is not take part in the lie.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

disturbs

 

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan

happiness

 

Happiness... not in another place but this place not for another hour but this hour.

Walt Whitman

do not learn

 

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

footfalls

 

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened.

T. S. Eliot