study

 

 

 

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Confucius

space

 

 

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

Viktor Frankl

responsibility

 

 

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

step

 

 

 

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

democracy

 

 

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

leave

 

 

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

rage

 

 

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Octavia E. Butler

bold

 

 

 

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Sigmud Freud

seek

 

 

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

loneliness

 

 

Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone, whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others.

Hannah Arendt

power

 

 

 

It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

never

 

 

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

universe

 

 

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

those

 

 

 

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

consequences

 

 

Every word has consequences. Every silence too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

illusion

 

 

 

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

destroy

 

 

 

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

magic world

 

I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.

Virginia Woolf

conscience

 

 

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Octavia E. Butler

side

 

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

Federico García Lorca

autumn

 

 

 

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

words

 

 

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

no answer

 

 

 

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.

Gertrude Stein

nerve

 

 

It is not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Georgia O'Keeffe

learn

 

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

healing

 

 

 

 

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. it means the damage no longer controls our lives.

Akshay Dubey

task

 

 

 

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

Iris Murdoch

forgive

 

 

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

change

 

 

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

bear

 

 

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

judged

 

 

We will, I hope, be judged, eventually seemingly small, random acts of kindness and sincerity.

Anthony Bourdain

sign

 

 

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.

Sadhguru

vision

 

 

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

Carl Jung

time

 

 

 

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

dreams

 

 

 

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Bob Dylan

life

 

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

Florence Scovel

responsible

 

 

You are not responsible for meeting everyone's expectations. Let them be disappointed.

Anonymous

i

 

 

 

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon

know

 

 

Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

dare

 

 

 

One must dare to be happy.

Gertrude Stein

wrong

 

 

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

Leo Tolstoy

carrying on

 

 

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Albert Camus

 

dreams

 

 I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

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