leaves

 

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, loves leaves a memory no one can steal.

from an Irish headstone

hate

 

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Kurt Vonnegut

truth

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

empires

 

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

Van Lente

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

strength

 

There are two ways of exerting strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. 

Booker T. Washington

light

A light here requires a shadow there.

Virginia Wolf

mask

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

limits

 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

always

 

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

Nikos Kazantzakis

courage

As delicate as flower, as tender as rose petals, choosing to be tender and kind in a harsh environment is not weakness, it's courage.

Luffina Lourduraj

dreams

 

I begin to wonder if those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality, of a gigantic collective dream at which the entire city may be the projection.

Chris Marker

substitute

We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

Joh Cassavetes

man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Eric Fromm

obliterate

 

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Anais Nin

money

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

dreams

 

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own hearts.

Terri Guillemets

time

 

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past.

T.S. Elliot

believe

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chuck of it falls on you.

Margaret Atwood

easier

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass