soul

 

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

Rumi

see

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Von Goethe

expects

 

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin

one

 

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

despicable

 

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

courage

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

between

 

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Khalil Gibran

sensuality

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

prejudices

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. 

Voltaire

truth

 

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

judge

Don't judge each day the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

truth

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

absence

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

granted

 

Most human being have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

you

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Carl Jung

silent

 

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

secret

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

comprehend

 

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

ignore

 

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Ayn Rand

purpose

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

learned

 

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

Khalil Gibran

life

 

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

C.S. Lewis

happiness

 

Every since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Hafez

prove

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person of me than the one I became.

Franz Kafka

silence

Silence's importance is increasing as I'm getting older...we need it for balance, to get our brains empty. Just eating information makes you unable to move.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

time

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Arthur Schopenhauer 

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

where

 

Where your fear is, there is your task.

Carl Jung

learn wisdom

 

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

healing

Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.

Rupi Kaur

travel

 

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.

Aldous Huxley

think

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

accepts

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it but does not add to it.

Marcus Aurelius

anxiety

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Alan Watts

illusion

The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

suffers

 

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But the silence of good people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

cruel

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

destroy

 

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy

educate

 

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Pythagoras

hypocritical

 

There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.

Miroslav Volf

paradise

 

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

lose

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

yourself

 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

truth

 

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and calls it a lie, is a criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

myths

 

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live.

Joseph Campbell

evil

 

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.

Sun Tzu

limits

 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

troubles

Half of the troubles of life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Josh Billings