idiots

One idiot is one idiot. / Two idiots are two idiots. / Ten thousand idiots are a political party

Franz Kafka

escape

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

you

 

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Rumi

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth / and in me

nature

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

privilege

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

 

ignore

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Rumi

attached

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

art

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

imagination

 

Imagination is your mind's playground.

Anonymous

dream

 

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

awaken

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

thinking

Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

cling

 

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time time making it.

Anonymous

end

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

S.K. Harrell

will be

Que sera, sera / Whatever will be, will be / The future's not our to see.

 

new

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

Norman Rockwell

intense

 

A split second and an eternity become interchangeable when you experience intense emotions.

Jonathan Coe

dissect

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

 Edvard Munch

now

 

The past had vanished and become nothing; the future was the inconceivable nothingness of annihilation. All that was left was the ceaselessly shrinking fragment of time called now.

Anna Kavan

moves

I'm not interested in how people move but what moves them.

Pina Bausch

education

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James Baldwin

dwell

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Lord Buddha 

nature

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

see

We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Zen Proverb

irony

Irony is wasted on the stupid.

Oscar Wilde

use

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

here

 

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

Anonymous

you

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

Faith Ringgold

darkness

Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.  And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

grow

 

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

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 

life

 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

life

 

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

without

Without order nothing can exist, without chaos nothing can evolve.

Oscar Wilde 

paris

 

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

Gertrude Stein

moon

 

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Khalil Gibran

one

One clear moment, one of trance/ One missed step, one perfect dance/ One missed shot, one and only chance/ Life is all... but one fleeting glance.

Sanober Khan

grief

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

canvas

Our bodies are the canvas of our emotions, and most often, we let the world paint it.

Natasha Potter 

chance

 

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

abstains

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

i shall

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

no one

 

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

saddest

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

*anti-vaxxer and anti-covid passport march

pain

 

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Anonymous

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

hope

 

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Anne Frank

pillars

 

Love and compassion are pillars of world peace.

The Dalai Lama