no one

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Augustine of Hippo 

light

A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul's tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.

Eric Berne

compassion

When love and compassion are present in us, and we send them outward then that is truly prayer.

Thich Nhat Hanh

easier

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

the queen

 

   God save the Queen!!!

Queen Elizabeth II

 

Queen Elizabeth II

21 April 1926 - 08 Sept 2022

may her missions be accomplished

limiting

 

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mills

your

 

So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

yesterday

 

It's no use going back to yesterday, I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

behavior

 

Changed behavior is the only apology, otherwise, it's just manipulation.

Maranda Pleasant

affliction

The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we do't know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.

Thich Nhat Hanh

believe

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them.

Philippe Petit

taking

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

everybody

 

Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see.

André Kertész

change

Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

Anonymous

used

 

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Salman Rushdie

journey

 

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

Philippe Petit

sensuality

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

explore

It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching,  not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge

Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek

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

conformity

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Earl Nightengale

freedom

 

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

you

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

power

 

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

attention

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer, is the same thing as prayer.

Simone Weil

circumstances

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

David Hume

emotions

During the 1960s, I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Andy Warhol

dealing

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

Dale Carnegie

reality

Reality is a question of perspective.

Salman Rushdie

deal

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

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