happiness

 

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

afraid

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

prefer

 

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal

love

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

dream

 

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

death

Death is a drawing together of two worlds not an end. We are the bridge.

Carl Gustav Jung

enlightened

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

trust

 

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann WolfgangVon Goethe

useless

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

miserable

There is no more miserable human than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

learned

 

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

Khalil Gibran

life

 

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

C.S. Lewis

absence

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

François de la Rochefoucauld

education

 

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

saves

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

Pablo Neruda

define

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

George Bernard Shaw

choice

 

At every moment we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don't. Sometimes that chioce may simply be to think a more positive thought.

Tina Turner (1939-2023)

caution

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

youth

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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