falling

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Margaret Atwood

man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Erich Fromm

creative instinct

The creative instinct is...an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual...-an energy which no single life can consume.

Pearl S. Buck

forget

 

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

attention

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

people

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

present

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

strength

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

Mahatma Gandhi

enlightened

 

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

learn

 

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Aldous Huxley

quality

 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

teach

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

Socrates 

difficult

 

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

help

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. 

Thomas Sowell

attention

 

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

love

Love is not a relationship with someone. Love is a way of life with everything.

Paramatma Siri Sadhana 

Paris

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.

Thomas Jefferson

evolve

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Immanuel Kant