saddest

 

 

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Issac Asimov

deny

 

 

 

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Isaac Asimov

stupidity

 

 

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

constantly

 

 

 

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Patti Smith

become

 

 

 

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

love

 

It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.

bell hooks

tree

 

 

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Simone Weil

changed

 

 

 

Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

Jean-Paul Sartre

illusion

 

 

 

You realize the sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.

The Flaming Lips

time

 

 

 

Time is the thief of memories.

Stephen King

magic

 

 

Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.

Atticus

we

 

 

We have two lives; and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Confucius

lightens

 

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

raise

 

 

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

light

 

 

 

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

ignore

 

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Rumi

grieving

 

 

If you simply can't understand why someone is grieving so much, for so long, then consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand.

Joanne Caccoatore

bloom

 

 

 

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Rumi

i

 

 

 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

past

 

 

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart