mediocrity

 

The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham

living

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

silence

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things. It means that you are not disturbed inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

conversation

 

In order to have a conversation with someone, you must reveal yourself.

James Baldwin

freedom

 

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

destination

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust 

fall in love

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Robert Morely 

lost

 

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

Joan Littlewood

romantic

To me, romantic means you follow your heart more than your mind.

Wong Kar-wai 

beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

death

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Irish proverb

play

 

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Richard Buckminister Fuller

truth

 

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

freedom

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin 

truth

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

i

 

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

truth

 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

quiet

 

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.

Amanda Gorman

light

 

There is always light

 If only we are brave enough to see it 

If only we are brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman

contradict

 

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle.

Thomm Quackenbush

decent

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

George Orwell

earth

 

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Anonymous

one day

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre

hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

step

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

when

 

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Salvador Dali

answer

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax.

William S. Burroughs

unbelieved

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.

John Steinbeck

available

I try to be available for life to happen to me.

Bill Murray

Martin Luther King, Jr...

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

searching

 

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Jim Morrison

felt

 

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

John Steinbeck

treasure

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere...in trees, rivers, insects, well, anything...I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

Hayao Miyazaki

earth

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

courage

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

want

 

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

caught

 

We are all caught in the in between of what's real and what's a dream.

Anonymous

kindness

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

you

Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you. Your truth is in your roots, but your past is not your anchor. 

Kat Cole

sentient

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

flowers

 

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear

 

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

Suzy Kassem

while

While still in the cage of your being, behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

you

 

You are the rainbow that adds color to my gray skies.

Avijeet Das

traumas

... traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkness pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.

A. Zavarelli, Crow 

becoming

 

All forms of becoming require spaciousness in one way or another; mental space that allows the mind to expand, emotional space for feeling to flower, and physical space in which to move.

Dana Hutton

path

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. with each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.