kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

changes

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and may be naive.

Frida Kahlo

change

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

desire

 

sometimes desire is like a fever; it has to run it's course.

donna donato

absence

 

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

waste

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Franz Kafka

narrowing

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

David Lynch

creativity

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

Oliver Sacks

discovered

In the middle of winter, I discovered in myself an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

trees

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

space

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankl

paths

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. 

Leo Tolstoy

joy

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

meet

People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves.

Anonymous

passion

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Martin Parr

never

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

he

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

blessings

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude. 

Leonard Cohen

human

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

George Orwell

known

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil