you

 

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write and paint it and do it.

Faith Ringgold

know

 

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Copernicus

change

 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

desires

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

hold

Don't hold on for dear life - hold life dearly.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

happiness

 

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

loneliness

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others inadmissible.

Carl Jung

retrospect

 

Stupidity is one of two thing we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King

clear-sightedness

 

There can be no true goodness, not true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus, The Plague

attention

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

anxiety

The anxiety you feel about the future reduces your enjoyment of the present.

anonymous

everything

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

battle

 

That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Haruki Marukami, IQ84

HRH Queen Elizabeth II

 

HRH Queen Elizabeth II

21 april 1926 - 08 sept 2022

may her missions be accomplished

change

 

I have to change to stay the same.

Willem de Kooning

free

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Salman Rushdie

believe

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

Philippe Petit

everybody

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

André Kertész

secret

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Iris Murdoch

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.