enough

I have nature, art and poetry and if that's not enough, what is enough.

Vincent Van Gogh

dreams

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

Chris Marker

falling

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

Margaret Atwood

man

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

Erich Fromm

creative instinct

The creative instinct is...an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual...-an energy which no single life can consume.

Pearl S. Buck

forget

 

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

attention

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

people

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

Dale Carnegie

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

present

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

enlightened

 

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

learn

 

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Aldous Huxley

quality

 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

teach

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Socrates 

difficult

 

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

help

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. 

Thomas Sowell

attention

 

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

love

Love is not a relationship with someone. Love is a way of life with everything.

Paramatma Siri Sadhana 

Paris

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

Thomas Jefferson

evolve

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Immanuel Kant

capitalism

Capitalism creates the problem and monetizes the solution.

decolonize this place

response

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it.

Søren Kierkegaard

give

What happened, has happened. Give your energy to what matters and what you want to manifest.

Anonymous

destroy

 

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy

value

 

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

disguised

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings...

Lao Tsu

protect

 

Protect your peace today. Rise above any ignorance. Don't allow someone's misery to steal your joy.

Rehabtim

stupidity

Stupidity is more prevalent than hydrogen in the universe.

Frank Zappa

impossible

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve, the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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