trusted

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George McDonald

function

The real function of art is to change mental patterns...making new thought possible.

Jean Dubuffet

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

shock

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Renault

life

 

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

Hypatia

actions

Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman

love

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

Anne Sexton

once

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

destiny

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

Jean de la Fontaine

risk

 

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took blossom.

Anaïs Nin

follow

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler 

alert

 

If you're really alert, then you see the life that exists beyond the life that is on top.

Toni Morrison

soul

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

Rumi 

kill

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

Voltaire

love

 

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hahn

religion

 

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

Lucius Annaeus Senecca

worries

 

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain

comfort

 

I am not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Jon Stewart

emotion

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

measure

 

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

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

despair

 

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Kierkegaard

what

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

caution

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

Bertrand Russell

letting go

"Was it hard?" I asked.  "Letting go?" I nodded. "Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real."

Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

upset

 

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

content

 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao tzu

moon

 

The moon, like a celestial lantern, illuminated the earth's nocturnal tapestry.

Virginia Woolf

9/11

 

We will NOT FORGET!!

(internet photo)

indifference

 

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

everything

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

compassion

 

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

god

 

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

observer

 

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

destiny

 

Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman

judge

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

sights

 

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

Mary Oliver

time

 

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

task

 

Where you fear is, there is your task.

Carl Jung

anxiety

 

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

Alan Watts

tolerance

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Fyodor Dosteovsky

fly

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dean Stojanovic

travel

 

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.

Aldous Huxley

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't now you left open.

John Barrymore

prove

 

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

Franz Kafka

music

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

love

 

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

madness

To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

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

different

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Baruch Spinoza