illusion

 

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

measurement

 

The measurement of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

consequences

 

Every word has consequences. Every silence too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

wrong

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy 

comfort

 

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

silence

 

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

beauty

 

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

true

 

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Voltaire

crimes

 

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Noam Chomsky

lie

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

despair

I have never been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope.

James Baldwin

self care

Someone said that self care is also choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Anonymous

blind

 

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

James Baldwin

i

 

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

Anais Nin

free

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad day. Labelling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Baba Ramdass

I

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung

imagines

 

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

think

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Socrates

differences

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

2024

 

Happy New Year 

may peace prevail on earth 

and in me