blossoms

 

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde

life

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

Jean de la Bruyere

leaves

 

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, loves leaves a memory no one can steal.

from an Irish headstone

hate

 

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Kurt Vonnegut

truth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

empires

 

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

Van Lente

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

strength

 

There are two ways of exerting strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. 

Booker T. Washington

light

A light here requires a shadow there.

Virginia Wolf

mask

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

limits

 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

always

 

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

Nikos Kazantzakis

courage

As delicate as flower, as tender as rose petals, choosing to be tender and kind in a harsh environment is not weakness, it's courage.

Luffina Lourduraj

dreams

 

I begin to wonder if those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality, of a gigantic collective dream at which the entire city may be the projection.

Chris Marker

substitute

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.

Joh Cassavetes

man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Eric Fromm

obliterate

 

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Anais Nin

money

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

dreams

 

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own hearts.

Terri Guillemets

time

 

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past.

T.S. Elliot

believe

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chuck of it falls on you.

Margaret Atwood

easier

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

life

 

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

Jean de la Bruyére

happiness

 

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

John Barrymore

books

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

Oscar Wilde

truth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

happiness

 

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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