dream

 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

circumstances

 

 

 

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

america

 

 

 

America feels like a subscription service that keeps raising the price and removing the features.

Brains and Spoons

pain

 

 

 

pain from the past informs the present and the future.

dd

mindfulness

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Sylvia Boorstein

follies

 

 

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

purpose

 

 

 

The idea of life having a purpose stand and falls with the religious system.

Sigmund Freud

sane

 

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

love

 

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

used to

 

 

 

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

those

 

 

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those are substantial enough to move on.

Criss Jami

9/11

 

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

i remember

gates

 

 

 

May all your fences have gates.

August Wilson

dangerous

 

 

It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.

Benoit Blanc

change

 

 

Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

Anonymous

old

 

 

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

argue

 

 

 

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

Oscar Wilde

living

 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

photography

 

 

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

Dorothea Lange

reason

 

 

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

Zadie Smith

truth

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

igornance

 

 

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois

beware

 

 

 

Beware the peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existences is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

in charge

 

 

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life.

Anais Nin

drifts

 

 

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

plunder

 

 

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frederic Bastiat

nobody

 

 

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

life

 

 

Life is a chance. Love is infinity. Grace is reality.

Anonymous

flame

 

 

 

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao Tzu

exposure

 

 

A long exposure time gives the soul time to appear. And leaves time for chance to intervene.

Paolo Roversi

terror

 

 

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Wole Soyinka

kindness

 

 

 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see.

Mark Twain

job

 

 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Albert Camus

know

 

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

beware

 

 

Beware of peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

stillness

 

 

 

Don't wait for the world to be still. Find stillness within the world.

Rumi

dying

 

 

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

universe

 

 

Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fir project that got a C-.

Anonymous

destroyers

 

 

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Anaïs Nin

evil man

 

 

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

Sun Tzu

strength

 

 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

loudest

 

 

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

death

 

 

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

future

 

 

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

 Anonymous

home

 

 

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

nature

 

 

 

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

difference

 

 

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

war

 

 

War is a cowardly escape from problems of peace.

Thomas Mann