person

 

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

distinction

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

we

 

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

music

 

The universe is making music all the time.

Tom Waits

absence

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

impermanence

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous 

religion

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

learned

 

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

Khalil Gibran

kill

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

recognize

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell

peace

 

Peace is not something to hope for in the future. Peace is something that we can be in every moment. If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope.

Thich Nhat Hanh

love

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

matter

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe...so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

John Fowles

argue

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

even if

 

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it.

the Dalai Lama

opinion

 

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

settle

 

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

happiness

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to fine it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

infinite

 

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

memory

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

Tennessee Williams 

destiny

 

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

opinions

 

Few men think; yet all have opinions.

George Berkely

yourself

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Adam Smith

normality

 

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

Vincent van Gogh

good

 

Do good to your body, so that your soul may desire to live in it.

Theresa of Avila

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