joy

 

Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

other

 

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

flowers

 

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

you

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

luck

 

Luck in what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

lives

 

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

trouble

 

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T.S. Eliot

solution

 

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.

Mary Shelley

responsibility

 

It's never the responsibility of the oppressed to prove their humanity. If deficiency is revealed, it's in the souls of those who require proof.

Cole Arthur Riley

life

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

Tennessee Williams

learning

 

Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in.

Michelle Obama

silent

 

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

Zora Neale Hurston

burden

 

Sometimes we don't realize how heavy a burden can be until it is lifted off our shoulders.

Anonymous

future

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

follies

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

truth

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung 

music

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

life

 

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

way

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Rumi

facts

 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

time

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

Paulo Coelho

change

 

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

life

 

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel

enemy

 

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice an have.

James Baldwin

responsible

 

You are not responsible for the version of you that exists in other people's minds.

Anonymous

standing up

 

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge, I have matches. We ride at dawn.

Anonymous

loneliness

 

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Paulo Coelho

sadness

 

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

Charles Bukowski

illusion

 

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

measurement

 

The measurement of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

consequences

 

Every word has consequences. Every silence too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

wrong

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy 

comfort

 

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

silence

 

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

beauty

 

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

true

 

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

Voltaire

crimes

 

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Noam Chomsky

lie

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

despair

I have never been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope.

James Baldwin

self care

Someone said that self care is also choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Anonymous

blind

 

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

James Baldwin

i

 

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

Anais Nin

free

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad day. Labelling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Baba Ramdass

I

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung

imagines

 

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

think

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Socrates

differences

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

2024

 

Happy New Year 

may peace prevail on earth 

and in me