destroy

 

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy

educate

 

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Pythagoras

hypocritical

 

There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.

Miroslav Volf

paradise

 

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

Victor Hugo

lose

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

yourself

 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

truth

 

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and calls it a lie, is a criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

myths

 

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live.

Joseph Campbell

evil

 

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

Sun Tzu

limits

 

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

troubles

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

Josh Billings

fate

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Democritus

you

 

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

letting to

 Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

risks

 

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Erza Pound

verge

 

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Søren Kierkegaard

work

 

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

freedoms

 

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl

reflection

 

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him.

Bill Watterson

listen

 

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway