simplicity

 

Simplicity is not a mere idea To be simple demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

life

 

Life is an unfoldment , and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Hypatia

cheating

 

We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.

Pema Chodron

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

flowers

 

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Anne Frank

dance

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Albert Einstein

beauty

 

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Toni Morrison

you

 

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

understand

 

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Baruch Spinoza

garbage

 

Paris is drowning in uncollected garbage and some find the strikers are heroes.

love

 

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

rules

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

Immanuel Kant

seeing

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Mary Oliver

i

 

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Virgil

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

window

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

stupidity

 

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka, The Trial

thinking

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Agatha Christie

mind

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

fears

A man who fears being seen as feminine - is a man who fears being treated the way he treats women.

Farida D.