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