life

 

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

way

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Rumi

facts

 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

time

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

Paulo Coelho

change

 

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

life

 

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel

enemy

 

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice an have.

James Baldwin

responsible

 

You are not responsible for the version of you that exists in other people's minds.

Anonymous

standing up

 

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge, I have matches. We ride at dawn.

Anonymous

loneliness

 

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Paulo Coelho

sadness

 

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

Charles Bukowski

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