wound

 

What is terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakmi

man

 

It is the man with no love in his heart who talks of rights and duties.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

you

 

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

James Baldwin

contribute

 

I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture I was living in.

David Bowie

live

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

understand

 

If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung

death

Death smiles at every man, and all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

discourage

 

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

maturity

One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.

Martin Luther King, Jr

pay

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin 

habits

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

departure

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

you

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

Anne Sexton 

time machines

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

H.G. Wells

myself

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Claire Lipsector

you

 

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

sin

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

dream

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Carl Jung

limit

The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind.

Wim Hof

camera

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

books

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

life

 
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Albert Camus

dimension

You are about to enter another dimension. It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Twilight Zone 

sseking

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Haruki Murakami

heart

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

Patti Smith

decisive

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson 

afraid

 

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Eugene Ionesco

ignore

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Ayn Rand

emotion

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

live

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

work

Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you.

Jean Coucteau

yourself

 

Life is not about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

secret

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

arrogant

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task n life-- becoming a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

understanding

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Socrates

waste

It's not that we have so little time, but that we waste so much.

Seneca

happy

 

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or objects.

Albert Einstein

life

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyere

habits

The second half of a a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

pay

People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

maturity

One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.

Martin Luther King, Jr

death

 

Death smiles at every man and all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

understand

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung

difficult

 

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

solve

 

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Isaac Asimov

future

 

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

night

I cannot walk down my neighborhood streets in the solitude of night without thinking that night is pleasing to us because, like memory, it erases idle details.

Jorge Luis Borges

found

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Mahershala Ali

transformation

 

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

Patti Smith

respect

 

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy