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

he

 

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

Thich Naht Hanh

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

life

 

 

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

dreams

 

 

 

We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

absence

 

 

 

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

i

 

 

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

James Baldwin

do good

 

 

 

Do good to your body, so that you soul may desire to live in it.

Theresa of Avila

memories

 

 

 

memories slowly moving backwards in a cave full of fog.

dd

people

 

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

you

 

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of live.

Anais Nin

death

 

 

 

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

universe

 

Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fair project that got a C-.

Anonymous

build

 

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

living

 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

not everyone

 

 

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

Anonymous