secret

 

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

Paris

 

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.

Thomas Jefferson

optional

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

truth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

world

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Hermann Hess

fleeting

 

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Ettore Sottsass

elsewhere

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Rumi

evil

 

Men and women never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

make

 

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

Carlos Castaneda

dares not

 

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

hangs

 

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Carl Jung

where

 

where is the liberty and justice for All??

nothing

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

Steve Hackett, Entangled

difficult

The most difficult thing n the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to.

John Cassavetes

braver

 

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

RESIST

 

RESIST! FIGHT AGAINST THE WAR ON WOMEN!

anti-woman

 

from the French newspaper, "Liberation"

progress

 

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

George Orwell

procreation

Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals.

Ayn Rand

may

 

May the long time sun shine upon you, may all love surround you, and may the pure light within you guide your way on.

Celtic blessing.

sold

We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

John Cassavettes

quietness

These are the times in life -- when nothing happens -- but in quietness the soul expands.

Rockwell Kent

cannot

 

You cannot hide and seek your fate; you cannot seek and hide your karma.

Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

knowledge

 

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

Pericles

grieve

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

collect

 

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect.

Nikos Kazantzakis

life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

curiosity

Curiosity about life in all of it aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

madness

 

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

ageless

Inside, we are ageless... and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body this changing around that ageless center.

David Lynch

traveling

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, "i would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station."

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán 

becomes

 

The body becomes what the foods are: As the spirit becomes what the thoughts are.

Ancient Kemetic proverb

enlightened

 

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into this world...by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never gt tossed because we become the waves.

Ken Kesey, "Kesey's Garage Sale"

beauty

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Albert Camus

myths

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

C.G. Jung

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

world

 

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.

Georgia O'Keeffe

justice

 

where is the liberty and justice for ALL??

live

 

As long as you live, keep learning to live.

Seneca

unconscious

 

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

Carl Jung

privilege

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love...

Marcis Aurelius

logic

 

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

justification

 

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

hold on

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Fredrich Nietzsche, "The Portable Nietzsche"

one

 

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Simone de Beauvoir

passes

 

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and find serenity.

Surya Das

honest

 

...it is ironic, that the more honest we become the more we risk being offensive even to those we most respect.

William Williams 

terms

 

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion

door

 

I can only show you the door. You are the one who has to walk through it.

Morpheus

judgment

 

Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus