compassion

 

 

Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

reading

 

 

 

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Jean Rhys

grieve

 

 

 

We grieve because we love. The intensity of the grief often proclaims the depth of our love.

Gary Roe

i

 

 

 

I was here before I came and when I die, I am not leaving.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

controls

 

 

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

life

 

 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

live

 

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.

Oscar Wilde

we

 

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

truth

 

 

 

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

intelligence

 

 

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Sadiguru

change

 

 

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

autumn

 

 

 

I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

lives

 

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Sherwood Anderson

live

 

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

beneath

 

 

 

I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper.

David Lynch

future

 

 

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk