switch

 

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

Chuck Palahniuk

dares not

 

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

discourage

 

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

lacking

 

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pericles

touching

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Eleanor Cameron

sunset

 

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

poetry

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

anger

Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous... it fuels not postitive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.

Ursula K. Le Guin

spend

In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking.

Rasheed Oguniaru

make

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

bird

While still in the cage of your being, behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

behavior

 

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

unconscious

 

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Carl Jung

attention

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form on generosity.

Simone Weil

evil

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

respect

Respect is the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his individuality.

Erich Fromm

error

 

It is a sentimental error... to believe that the past is dead.

James Baldwin

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

nothing

Nothing is quite what it seems, sometimes entangled in your dreams.

Steve Hackett, Entangled

duplicity

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios