trouble

 

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

T.S. Eliot

decide

Stop trusting that the arc of the moral universe will simply bend toward justice -- and decide to be arc benders.

John Pavolvitz

between

 

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Khalil Gibran

saints

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut 

foolishness

 

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

abundance

 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

love

 

When you love and trust people more than they deserve, surely they will hurt you more than you deserve.

Paulo Coelho

flowers

 

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Anne Frank

freedom

 

People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

conscious

 

Until you make the subconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl June

evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal 

photography

 

Photography is the instinct of hunting withtout the desire to kill. It's the angel hunt... You track, you aim, you fire, and click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal.

Chris Marker

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

wrong

 

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

destination

 

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

hell

 

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

abundance

 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

daily

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Virginia Woolf

foolishness

 

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

opposition

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

memories

Memories that come between waking and sleeping in the somnolent half light of morning.

Tracy Hamby

best

 

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

everything

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Andre Gide

they

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.

James Baldwin

books

 

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

Wole Soyinka

lie

 

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

Mark Twain

evil

 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

power

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

reality

 

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

nothing

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Elliot

truth

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

purpose

 

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set a person free from the ghosts and imprisoning effects of the past.

Harry Guntrip

solve

 

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

sin

 

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Aldous Huxley

shows

 

You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows. Yes, it shows.

Harry Nilsson, Without You

masses

 

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions.

Sigmund Freud

believe

 

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

compassion

 

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anais Nin

start

 

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

live

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

Iris Murdoch

anxiety

 

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Khalil Gilbran

observe

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

if

 

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Toni Morrison

love

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

injustice

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

better

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

André Gide

fear

 

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

journey

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

lying

 

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

cave

 

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell