we

 

 

We have two lives; and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Confucius

lightens

 

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

raise

 

 

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

light

 

 

 

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

ignore

 

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Rumi

grieving

 

 

If you simply can't understand why someone is grieving so much, for so long, then consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand.

Joanne Caccoatore

bloom

 

 

 

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Rumi

i

 

 

 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

past

 

 

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

goodness

 

 

There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren't inhibited by traumas and and are given half a chance, it shines through.

Leonard Bernstein

justice

 

 

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

miseries

 

 

 

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

spiritual

 

 

 

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

man

 

 

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

sees

 

 

 

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Von Goethe

true

 

 

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

Voltaire

altered

 

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever."

Marian Keyes

way

 

 

 

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

Rumi

look

 

 Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Donald T

  

 

She hates you too, Donald, We all do.

arguing

 

 

Arguing with a fool is like wrestling with a pig: you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Mark Twain

easier

 

 

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

prudent

 

 

 

It is prudent not to trust entirely those who have deceived us once.

Rene Descartes

solve

 

 

 

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

alters

 

 

 

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

people

 

 

 

 People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal...but they love the idea of being superior.

James Baldwin

know

 

 

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

knocks

 

 

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Boris Pasternak

prefer

 

 

 

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal

everyone

 

 

 

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

judge

 

 

 

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Steveson

sees

 

 

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Von Goethe

soul

 

 

 

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

Rumi

art

 

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

changed

 

 

 

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

argue

 

 

 

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

Mark Twain

life

 

 

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

differences

 

 

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

Audre Lorde

trusted

 

 

 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George MacDonald

i

 

 

 

I was here before I came and when I die, I am not leaving.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

way

 

 

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, and the only way, it doesn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

trample

 

 

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

Chinua Achebe

gates

 

 

 

May all your fences have gates.

August Wilson

I am

 

 

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

C.G. Jung

lack

 

 

 

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

ignite

 

 

 

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Bronte

born

 

 

We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

problems

 

 

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

impression

 

 

 

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

opinion

 

 

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson