music

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

creative

 

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

George Carlin

distances

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

John Fowles

mind

 

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

understand

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

cheating

 

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

Pema Chödrön

spectacle

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior or the soul.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

laugh

 

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

Søren Kierkegaard

death

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

Carl Jung

right

 

The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the things will happen to you even without your intent.

Sadhguru

trust

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

Von Goethe

poison

 

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

Adam Smith

consequences

 

Every word has consequences. Every silence too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

fear

 

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Thomas Aquinas

buried

Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Benjamin Franklin

impression

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

changing

 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one things of changing themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

true

 

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Voltaire

learned

 

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

Robert Frost

impossible

 

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

Paulo Coelho

fear

 

When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom. 

Thomas Jefferson

death

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine 

expects

 

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

Benjamin Franklin

love

 

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

problems

 

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

caution

 

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

Bertrand Russell

one

 

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxely

terrible

 

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe

photography

 

Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

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