inside

 

 

 

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Clarice Lispector

changed

 

 

 

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

life

 

 

 

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting of of it.

 Carl Jung

time

 

 

In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar, "it's a sea on which you float."

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

feelings

 

 

Feelings can be like wild animals - we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage.

Richard Paul Evans

fear

 

 

 

Where your fear is, there your task is.

Carl Jung

86 47

 

 

 

the face of chaos

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life

 

 

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

truth

 

 

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

dreamer

 

 

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as An Artist

look

 

 

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming of.

Alice Walker

fools

 

 

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Eramus

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

guilt

 

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

truth

 

 

 

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

we the people

 

 

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

reality

 

 

 

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley

perfection

 

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

half

 

 

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

life

 

 

 

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

soul

 

 

 

The soul becomes dyed with color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

 

 

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X

mistook

 

 

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

death

 

 

 

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

Carl Jung

noise

 

 

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

hypocrites

 

 

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Noam Chomsky

present

 

 

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

wish

 

 

 

Be careful what you wish for lest it come true.

Aesops

mine

 

 

 

Whatever is mine is looking for me.

Alice Walker

death

 

 

 

Death will rearrange the world. Seems nothing has changed, and yet everything has become different.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

lack

 

 

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

art

 

 

 

Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently.

Virginia Woolf

afraid

 

 

Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever Again. Listen to me: Not Ever Again.

Marguerite Duras

women

 

 

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

HRM Elizabeth II

stupid

 

 

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

realizing

 

 

 

One of the hardest pills I've had to swallow was realizing I meant nothing to people that meant a lot to me.

Anonymous

voice

 

 

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

William Faulkner

enemy

 

 

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

time machine

 

 

We all have our time machine, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... and those that carry us forward are dreams.

H.G. Wells

change

 

 

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now. without delay.

Simone De Beauvoir

belief

 

 

 

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

bitterness

 

 

 

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

belief

 

 

 

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

peace

 

 

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

love

 

 

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it,  have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Milan Kundera

people

 

 

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

thinking

 

 

 

There are no dangerous thought; thinking itself is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

illusion

 

 

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

Lord Buddha

lose

 

 

 

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

oppression

 

 

 

Oppression in the name of "protection" is a time-honored strategy of misogynistic patriarchy.

Satya_Katy