fate

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Democritus

you

 

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

letting to

 Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

risks

 

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Erza Pound

verge

 

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Søren Kierkegaard

work

 

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

freedoms

 

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl

reflection

 

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him.

Bill Watterson

listen

 

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

simplicity

 

Simplicity is not a mere idea To be simple demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

life

 

Life is an unfoldment , and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Hypatia

cheating

 

We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.

Pema Chodron

afraid

 

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. 

Plato

flowers

 

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Anne Frank

dance

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Albert Einstein

beauty

 

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Toni Morrison

you

 

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

understand

 

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Baruch Spinoza

garbage

 

Paris is drowning in uncollected garbage and some find the strikers are heroes.

love

 

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

rules

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

Immanuel Kant

seeing

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Mary Oliver

i

 

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Virgil

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

window

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

stupidity

 

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka, The Trial

thinking

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Agatha Christie

mind

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

fears

A man who fears being seen as feminine - is a man who fears being treated the way he treats women.

Farida D.

bodies

 

Our bodies are the canvas of our emotions, and most often, we let the world paint it.

Natasha Potter

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

drunk

We get drunk with images, words, scenes, 

Anais Nin

find

 

You must find the place inside yurself where nothing is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

you

 

What worries you, masters you.

John Locke

present

 

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind you are no longer trapped in it.

Eckhart Tolle

poison

 

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Adam Smith

understand

 

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung

creative... but

 

They give you a coloring book and some crayons, and tell you, be creative...but don't go outside the lines.

George Carlin

life

 

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

meaning

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so simple, and yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as it it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts

approval

 

Wanting approval...is a kind of aggression.

Allen Ginsberg

faith

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

real

 

It looks real, but it's not real.

Eikoh Hosoe

memory

 

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

loudest

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

doubts

 

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

aim

 

The aim of argument or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

Joseph Joubert

know

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Isaac Newton

hand

 

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand. The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn

lived

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

W. H. Auden