stillness

 

 

 

Don't wait for the world to be still. Find stillness within the world.

Rumi

dying

 

 

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

universe

 

 

Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fir project that got a C-.

Anonymous

destroyers

 

 

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Anaïs Nin

evil man

 

 

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

Sun Tzu

strength

 

 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

loudest

 

 

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

death

 

 

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

Hannah Arendt

future

 

 

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

 Anonymous

home

 

 

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

nature

 

 

 

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson

difference

 

 

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

war

 

 

War is a cowardly escape from problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

follow

 

 

 

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler

pills

 

 

One of the hardest pills I've had to swallow was realizing I meant nothing to people that meant a lot to me.

Anonymous

we

 

 

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

June Jordan

arrogant

 

 

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

past

 

 

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the papst.

Baruch Spinoza

mindfulness

 

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present movemnt, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Sylvia Boorstein

fear

 

 

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Thomas Aquinas