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

democrary

 

 

Screw the papers, screw the polls, we continue because democracy is in peril. I will not eat the fear being served.

Anonymous

dreams

 

 

 

hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

beauty

 

 

 

There is beauty in everything, not everyone sees it.

Confucius

you

 

 

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.

Faith Ringgold

idea

 

 

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.

Paulo Coelho

spiritual

 

 

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

pressure

 

 

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever.

Marian Keyes

reentered

 

 

It was only when he reentered his own head under the spell of sleep's uninhibited state that the disjointed bits fell into a pattern and the larger idea expressed itself.

Paul Strathern

art

 

 

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

patience

 

 

 

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

optimism

 

 

i am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

peace

 

 

 

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

distinction

 

 

 

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein