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

oppressors

 

 

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Audre Lorde

do

 

 

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

the Talmud

excellence

 

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

sway

 

 

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one many by logic.

Robert A Heinlein

caught

 

 

 

Sometimes faint scraps of her dream would get caught on the wall of consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

dreams

 

 

 

entering the realm of dreams.

truth

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

believe

 

 

If you don't believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.

Noam Chomsky

we

 

 

 

We are made of time, we are made of music.

Nathalie Hodges

narcissism

 

I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the context of community.

bell hook

house

 

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

Jules Renard

dream

 

 

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

Ingmar Bergman

circumstances

 

 

 

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

america

 

 

 

America feels like a subscription service that keeps raising the price and removing the features.

Brains and Spoons

pain

 

 

 

pain from the past informs the present and the future.

dd

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

follies

 

 

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

purpose

 

 

 

The idea of life having a purpose stand and falls with the religious system.

Sigmund Freud

sane

 

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

love

 

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

used to

 

 

 

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

those

 

 

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those are substantial enough to move on.

Criss Jami

9/11

 

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

i remember

gates

 

 

 

May all your fences have gates.

August Wilson

dangerous

 

 

It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.

Benoit Blanc

change

 

 

Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

Anonymous

old

 

 

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

argue

 

 

 

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Oscar Wilde

living

 

 

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

Ingmar Bergman