don't

 

 

 

Not invited, Don't go. Not told, Don't ask. Late invites, Decline. You were never part of the plan. Accept that.

Anonymous

nostalgia

 

 

 

Do not love nostalgia more than you love today.

Anonymous

democracy

 

 

Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.

Albert Camus

life

 

 

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

truths

 

 

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

respond

 

 

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose who you will respond to the situation.

Viktor Frankl

despicable

 

 

 

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

change

 

 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Meed

door

 

 

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

crown

 

 

 

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

life

 

 

 

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

half

 

 

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

mask

 

 

 

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

Haruki Murakami

powerless

 

 

 

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Malcolm X

power

 

 

 There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.

Malala Yousafzai

loss

 

 

 

The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we are still alive.

Anonymous

oppressor

 

 

 

The oppressor will not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Simone de Beauvoir

end

 

 

 

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami

die

 
 

 

 

Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75.

Benjamin Franklin

enjoy

 

 

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

silence

 

 

 

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Cicero

Kamala Harris

 

 

 

Kamala Harris for the People

home

 

 

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

threatened

 

 

Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence... emit a think cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

William S. Burroughs

exquisite

 

 

 

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

Audrey Hepburn

trample

 

 

 

We cannot trample upon the humanity of other without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

happiness

 

 

 

Happiness ... not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.

Walt Whitman

divides

 

 

 

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

intuition

 

 

 

 Intuition is the voice of your soul.

Anonymous

suffering

 

 

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hahn

destination

 

 

My destination is no longer a place ... rather a new way of seeing... 

Marcel Proust

evil

 

He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done.

Leonardo Da Vinci

plan

 

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

absence

 

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

space

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl 

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

flowers

 

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Claude Monet

opportunity

 

Opportunity dances with those already on the dancefloor.

H Jackson Brown Jr.

myth

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Joseph Campbell

smile

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.

This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Thich Nhat Hanh

empty

 

Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn't alert you when it's empty.

Arabic proverb

you

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

more

 

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change world.

Joel A. Barker

destination

 

My destination is no longer a place... rather a new way of seeing... 

Marcel Proust

space

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

best

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

William Wordsworth

tragedy

The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Norman Cousins

death

 

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

Carl Gustav Jung