illusions

 

 

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions.

Sigmund Freud

actions

 

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

starve

 

 

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Richard Wright

sadness

 

sadness sometimes feels like a shadow that comes and goes, other times like a heavy blanket that has to be thrown off and sometimes, it's nowhere to be found. 

donna donato

doubts

 

 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

peace

 

 

 

may peace prevail on earth 

and in me

justice

 

 

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

miseries

 

 

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

truth

 

 

 

We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

evil

 

 

 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

pleases

 

 

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

happiness

 

 

 

 

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

Jack Kerouac

mindfulness

 

 

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.Sylvia Boorstein

wrong

 

 

 

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

follow

 

 

 

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler

attention

 

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

remember

 

 

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but their inhumanity.

James Baldwin

opportunities

 

 

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward

peace

 

 

 

may peace prevail on earth 

and in me

death

 

 

Death is a law, not a punishment.

Jean-Baptiste DuBos

nothing

 

 

We have nothing in common except the past and those aren't the best memories.

dd

mine

 

 

 

Whatever is mine is looking for me.

Alice Walker

desires

 

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamored for it.

Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove

challenge

 

This, my dear, is the greatest challenge of being alive: To witness the injustice of this world, and not allow it to consume our light.

Thich Nhat Hanh

doubts

 

 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

dance

 

 

 

Dance me to the end of love.

Leonard Cohen

vines

 

 

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

Sherwood Anderson

art

 

 

Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently.

Virginia Woolf

space

 

 

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

Viktor Frankl

dreams

 

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

David Bowie

wherever

 

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

angel

 

 

 

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

Anne Rice

freedom

 

 

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

stage

 

 

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

destroy

 

 

 

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

obligation

 

 

There is a moral obligation. i think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Chinua Achebe

change

 

 

 

Change is a door that can only be opened from the inside.

Terry Neil

memories

 

 

 

turning the pages of memories like they were stacked books.

dd

differences

 

 

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

intolerance

 

 

Its a universal law intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

truth

 

 

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

people

 

 

There are two kinds of people in this world. Avoid both of them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

people

 

 

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

truth

 

 

 

The truth doesn't vanish just because people stop defending it.

Robert Redford

life

 

 

Life is an illusion a dream; a bubble; a shadow... Nothing is permanent. Nothing is worthy of anger or dispute. Noting.

attributed to Lord Buddha

hardest

 

 

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

wait

 

 

I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

music

 

 

 

Music always knows how to keep memories safe, even when we least expect it.

Stamatis Kraounakis