love

 

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

you

 

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

upset

 

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

abandon

 

People don't abandon the people they love, they abandon the people they're using

Anonymous

shared

 

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle wil not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

attributed to Lord Buddha

i

 

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

Susan Sontag

life

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

illusions

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.

George Orwell

dead

 

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

life

 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

door

 

When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

you

 

If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.

Rumi

life

 

Life is an illusion a dram; a bubble; a shadow... Nothing is permanent. Nothing is worthy of anger or dispute. Nothing.

attributed to The Buddha

loss

 

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

signs

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

war lived

 

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where is lives...inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

finish

 

You have to finish things-that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Neil Gaiman

focusing

 

The best things in life come from focusing on asking better questions.

Sahil Bloom

illusions

 

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

content

 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao tzu