simplicity

 

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

happiness

 

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

Immanuel Kant

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

prefer

 

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal

love

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

dream

 

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

death

Death is a drawing together of two worlds not an end. We are the bridge.

Carl Gustav Jung

enlightened

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

trust

 

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann WolfgangVon Goethe

useless

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

miserable

There is no more miserable human than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

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

absence

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

François de la Rochefoucauld

education

 

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

saves

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

Pablo Neruda

define

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

George Bernard Shaw

choice

 

At every moment we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don't. Sometimes that chioce may simply be to think a more positive thought.

Tina Turner (1939-2023)

caution

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

youth

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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

yourself

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.