way

 

 

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

missing

 

 

 

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. 

Alphonse de Lamartine

love

 

 

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

C.S. Lewis

unheard

 

 

There's really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Arundhati Roy

totalitarianism

 

 

 

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Ardent

truth

 

 

 

The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.

Terence McKenna

 

tolerance

 

 

 

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann

love

 

 

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

John Updike

look

 

 

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

Albert Einstein

sorrow

 

 

 

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

propaganda

 

 

The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley

close

 

 

 

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you're alive.

Hafez

wrong

 

 

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

Leo Tolstoy

compassion

 

 

Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

reading

 

 

 

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Jean Rhys

grieve

 

 

 

We grieve because we love. The intensity of the grief often proclaims the depth of our love.

Gary Roe

i

 

 

 

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon

controls

 

 

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

life

 

 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

live

 

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.

Oscar Wilde

we

 

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

truth

 

 

 

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

intelligence

 

 

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Sadiguru

change

 

 

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

autumn

 

 

 

I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

lives

 

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Sherwood Anderson

live

 

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

beneath

 

 

 

I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper.

David Lynch

future

 

 

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

saddest

 

 

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Issac Asimov

deny

 

 

 

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Isaac Asimov

stupidity

 

 

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

constantly

 

 

 

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Patti Smith

become

 

 

 

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

love

 

It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.

bell hooks

tree

 

 

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Simone Weil

changed

 

 

 

Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

Jean-Paul Sartre

illusion

 

 

 

You realize the sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.

The Flaming Lips

time

 

 

 

Time is the thief of memories.

Stephen King

magic

 

 

Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.

Atticus

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