function

 

The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

sanctuary

 

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Herman Hess

right

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

don't

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi 

no one

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

count

 

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

truth

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

insane

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

instant

 

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Joan Didion

tired

 

tired of yesterday's pain creeping in stealing my today, blighting my tomorrow -

d donato

music

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

earth

 

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

time

Time is the school in which we learn.

Joan Didion

stupidity

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Issac Asimov

wisdom

 

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

truth

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

educated

 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristoteles

you

 

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

attributed to Lord Buddha

bonne

je vous souhaite une nouvelle année pleine de lumiere. 

i wish you a new year full of light.

into the next one

 

here we go!!!

solitary

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

bell hooks

silent

When i am silent i have thunder hidden inside.

Rumi

truth

 

Truth comes, but we can't hear it. How can we hear it when we've been programmed to fear it.

Lauryn Hill

person

The only person you are predestined to be come is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

jump

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

peace

 

Merry Christmas

may peace prevail on earth and in me

nothing

 

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle.

changes

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

C.S. Lewis

them

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

you

 

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you'd stop living to impress people.

Christopher Walken

changing

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

lonely

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

sorrows

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

no one

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Kahlil Gibran

confession

 

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

time

Time is the thief of memories.

Stephen King

captive

We're captive on the carousel of time/ We can't return, we can only look behind, from where we came / And go round and round and round, in the circle game.

Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game

skyward

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

you

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

Eckhart Tolle

sometimes

 

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Mandy Hale

you

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Max Ehrmann

moment

There is only one moment in time when it is essential to awaken, that moment is now.

Lord Buddha

moon

 

The Sun watches what we do, But the moon knows all of our secrets.

J.M. Wonderland

sing

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Rumi

light

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

love

 

To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Anne Sexton

soul

The soul will always do what it needs to do.

Tracey Emin

human

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart -- that's what life is all about, that's its task.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ponder

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.

Seneca

if

If you can fall in love again and again... If you can forgive as well as forget, if you keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical... you've got it half licked.

Henry Miller