purpose

 

Our purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

heart

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi

neglect

If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.

Radindranath Tagore

it goes on

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. - It goes on.

Robert Frost

kind

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

ignorance

 

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

moon

 

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

Rumi

mindfulness

Mindfulness arises when you allow your attention to fall effortlessly on the breathing point like an autumn leaf falling on a lake of still water.

Amit Ray

should not

If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.

Rabindranath Tagore

seasons

We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.

Katherine May

train

 

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

finish

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow isa new day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

future

The eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

Terry Tempest Williams

music

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar

quieter

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Rumi

happiness

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

John Barrymore

behind

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern... the whole world is a work of art... there is no Shakespeare... no Beethoven... no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Virginia Woolf

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