mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

sway

 

 

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one many by logic.

Robert A Heinlein

caught

 

 

 

Sometimes faint scraps of her dream would get caught on the wall of consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

dreams

 

 

 

entering the realm of dreams.

truth

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

believe

 

 

If you don't believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.

Noam Chomsky

we

 

 

 

We are made of time, we are made of music.

Nathalie Hodges

narcissism

 

I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the context of community.

bell hook

house

 

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

dream

 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

circumstances

 

 

 

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

america

 

 

 

America feels like a subscription service that keeps raising the price and removing the features.

Brains and Spoons

pain

 

 

 

pain from the past informs the present and the future.

dd

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 moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Sylvia Boorstein

follies

 

 

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

purpose

 

 

 

The idea of life having a purpose stand and falls with the religious system.

Sigmund Freud

sane

 

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

love

 

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

used to

 

 

 

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

those

 

 

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those are substantial enough to move on.

Criss Jami