time machine

 

 

We all have our time machine, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... and those that carry us forward are dreams.

H.G. Wells

change

 

 

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now. without delay.

Simone De Beauvoir

belief

 

 

 

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

bitterness

 

 

 

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

belief

 

 

 

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

peace

 

 

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

love

 

 

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it,  have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Milan Kundera

people

 

 

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

thinking

 

 

 

There are no dangerous thought; thinking itself is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

illusion

 

 

Life is an illusion a dream; a bubble; everything even shadow... Nothing is permanent. Nothing is worthy of anger or dispute.

Lord Buddha

lose

 

 

 

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

oppression

 

 

 

Oppression in the name of "protection" is a time-honored strategy of misogynistic patriarchy.

Satya_Katy

not aligned

 

 

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul - you create suffering.

Anais Nin

forces

 

 

 

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear, and greed.

Albert Einstein

path

 

 

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

beware

 

 

 

Beware the peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

you

 

 

 

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decided not to be reduced by them.

Dr. Maya Angelou

sin

 

 

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

beware

 

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

Charles Bukowski

used

 

 

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf

troubles

 

 

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Josh Billings

settle

 

 

 

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

do

 

 

 

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

courage

 

 

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

rudeness

 

 

 

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

misfortune

 

 

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Albert Camus

learn

 

 

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Friedrich Hegel

you

 

 

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Anais Nin

ability

 

 

 

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Eric Fromm

lack

 

 

 

 

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

Albert Camus

live

 

 

I live in my dreams... that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Herman Hess

truth

 

 

 

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

dark

 

 

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

listening

 

 

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

Nikki Giovanni

controls

 

 

 

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

George Orwell

everything

 

 

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

Andre Gide

flaw

 

 

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut

paradise

 

 

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

past

 

To be locked in the past means, in effect, that one has no past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.

James Baldwin

grief

 

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

tolerance

 

 

 

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann

solitude

 

 

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; n the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

third world

 

 

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Hannah Arendt

dangerous

 

 

 

There are no dangerous thought; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

totaliarianism

 

 

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

Hannah Arendt

photography

 

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

crying

 

 

Crying is just the way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is.

Japanese saying

truth

 

 

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

illusion

 

 

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

Anais Nin

mind

 

 

 

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker