path

 

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in our heart.

Katsura Hoshino

stupidity

 

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

Issac Asimov

switch

 

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

Chuck Palahniuk

dares not

 

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

discourage

 

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

Plato

lacking

 

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pericles

touching

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Eleanor Cameron

sunset

 

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

poetry

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

anger

Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous... it fuels not postitive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.

Ursula K. Le Guin

spend

In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking.

Rasheed Oguniaru

make

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

bird

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

Rumi

behavior

 

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

unconscious

 

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Carl Jung

attention

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form on generosity.

Simone Weil

evil

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

respect

Respect is the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his individuality.

Erich Fromm

error

 

It is a sentimental error... to believe that the past is dead.

James Baldwin

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

nothing

Nothing is quite what it seems, sometimes entangled in your dreams.

Steve Hackett, Entangled

duplicity

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios

war

 

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

compassion

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.

Albert Einstein

insane

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

silence

Silence, you know, is something that can't be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That's why they fill it with noise all the while.

John Berger

ugly

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Mat Haig, The Humans

inside

 

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

Clarice Lispector

unite

 

Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

struck

 I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the contest of community.

bell hooks

without

 

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Marcel Marceau

mission

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

warriors

The fiercest warriors, do not carry a sword to the battlefield; instead, they are armed with wisdom.

RJ Intindola

forget

 

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

Christopher Walken

hide and seek

After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.

Callie Hunter

if

 

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

one

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Eric Fromm

anger

Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous. It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.

Ursula K. Le Guin

hide-and-seek

 

I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are "it" all their lives - hopelessly it.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

slaves

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Bertrand Russell

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