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BEAUTY 29

And the world says: You are here. You are here. You are here.
Ada LimónGLOWsutraFLOWsutra
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
AesopGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Pourquoi faudrait-il aimer rarement pour aimer beaucoup?
Albert CamusGLOWsutraSHOWsutra
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert EinsteinBOWsutraGLOWsutra
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brené BrownGLOWsutraKNOWsutra
I am just a tiny speck in an infinite sea of stars.
Carl SaganBOWsutraGLOWsutra
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
CiceroGLOWsutraKNOWsutra
Beauty is everywhere, not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desmond TutuGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonBOWsutraFLOWsutra
Music is the only religion that delivers the good.
Frank ZappaSHOWsutraFLOWsutra
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida KahloGLOWsutraSHOWsutra
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
HafizGLOWsutraSHOWsutra
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen KellerGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Henry Scott HollandBOWsutraGLOWsutra
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
Herman MelvilleKNOWsutraBOWsutra
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenSHOWsutraBOWsutra
Many people wish to be poets because they wish to wear the title, but one should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille CliftonGLOWsutraFLOWsutra
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary OliverGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Why not let the soft animal of your body love what it loves?
Mary OliverGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
Maya AngelouKNOWsutraBOWsutra
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar WildeGLOWsutraBOWsutra
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel CarsonBOWsutraBLOWsutra
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard WagnerGLOWsutraGROWsutra
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
RumiBOWsutraGLOWsutra
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.
T.S. EliotBOWsutraGROWsutra
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Thich Nhat HanhBOWsutraGLOWsutra
I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia WoolfFLOWsutraBOWsutra
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
William BlakeGLOWsutraBOWsutra

EGO 6

America, when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?
Allen GinsbergSHOWsutraGROWsutra
Not all cowards are hypocrites, but(t) all hypocrites are cowards.
Banana SutraKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George OrwellBLOWsutraGROWsutra
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George OrwellKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Herman HesseBLOWsutraGROWsutra
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
John LennonGROWsutraKNOWsutra

FOOLERY 18

Play is the highest form of research.
Albert EinsteinSHOWsutraKNOWsutra
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E.E. CummingsSHOWsutraFLOWsutra
Don’t be afraid to look silly. It might free you.
Frank ZappaSHOWsutraGROWsutra
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George CarlinSHOWsutraBLOWsutra
I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho MarxSHOWsutraGROWsutra
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardSHOWsutraGLOWsutra
I’d rather be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeSHOWsutraFLOWsutra
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark TwainSHOWsutraGLOWsutra
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.
Maya AngelouSHOWsutraGLOWsutra
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar WildeSHOWsutraGLOWsutra
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter UstinovSHOWsutraKNOWsutra
Life must be lived as play.
PlatoSHOWsutraKNOWsutra
What is success? To laugh often and much.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSHOWsutraGROWsutra
This is not a pipe.
René MagritteSHOWsutraKNOWsutra
I did the math, and everything is stupid.
SnoopySHOWsutraKNOWsutra
Humor is a weapon of mass construction.
Stephen FrySHOWsutraKNOWsutra
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor HugoSHOWsutraGLOWsutra
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt DisneySHOWsutraGLOWsutra

INJUSTICE 16

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert EinsteinKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes—but right through every human heart.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynGROWsutraBLOWsutra
We live not by lies.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBLOWsutraGROWsutra
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre LordeBLOWsutraGROWsutra
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
Bernie SandersBLOWsutraGROWsutra
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Charles BaudelaireBLOWsutraSHOWsutra
America is a circus, full of clowns and freaks parading themselves as serious leaders
Charles BukowskiBLOWsutraSHOWsutra
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund BurkeBLOWsutraKNOWsutra
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.
Ernest Miller HemingwayBLOWsutraSHOWsutra
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich NietzscheKNOWsutraGROWsutra
They muddy the waters to make it seem deep.
Friedrich NietzscheBLOWsutraKNOWsutra
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MolièreGROWsutraBLOWsutra
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Nelson MandelaBLOWsutraGROWsutra
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Oscar WildeBLOWsutraSHOWsutra
In America, the President reigns for four years.
Oscar WildeBLOWsutraSHOWsutra

KNOWLEDGE 5

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Aldous HuxleyKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise PascalKNOWsutraFLOWsutra
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James BaldwinBLOWsutraGROWsutra
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-ZinnFLOWsutraGROWsutra
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale HurstonKNOWsutraGROWsutra

PEACE 10

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsFLOWsutraSHOWsutra
We are born in a moment of brilliance, and we flow with the universe like a dance.
Alejandro JodorowskyFLOWsutraGLOWsutra
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
Antonio MachadoFLOWsutraGROWsutra
Be water, my friend.
Bruce LeeFLOWsutraKNOWsutra
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. ChestertonFLOWsutraBOWsutra
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George OrwellGLOWsutraBOWsutra
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuKNOWsutraBOWsutra
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret AtwoodFLOWsutraSHOWsutra
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFLOWsutraGROWsutra
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
RumiFLOWsutraBOWsutra

POOLITICS 1

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George OrwellBLOWsutraSHOWsutra

RELIGION 2

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
William ShakespeareGROWsutraBLOWsutra
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareGROWsutraKNOWsutra

TRUTH 17

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert CamusKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
Albert EinsteinKNOWsutraGROWsutra
All I really know is I dunno shit about fck.
Banana SutraKNOWsutraSHOWsutra
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
La fin ne justifie pas les moyens.
Blaise PascalKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene IonescoKNOWsutraBOWsutra
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah ArendtKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie CurieBOWsutraGROWsutra
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark TwainKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.
PlatoKNOWsutraBLOWsutra
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
RumiFLOWsutraGLOWsutra
Never mind the bollocks.
Sex PistolsSHOWsutraGROWsutra
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesKNOWsutraBOWsutra
The unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SocratesKNOWsutraGROWsutra
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen HawkingKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes.
Umberto EcoBLOWsutraKNOWsutra

WISDOM 32

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert CamusGROWsutraGLOWsutra
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert EinsteinFLOWsutraSHOWsutra
There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
Amanda GormanGROWsutraBOWsutra
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly.
Anaïs NinGROWsutraFLOWsutra
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
bell hooksFLOWsutraGROWsutra
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand RussellFLOWsutraGLOWsutra
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl RogersFLOWsutraGROWsutra
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Carroll LewisGROWsutraBOWsutra
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai LamaKNOWsutraGLOWsutra
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor RooseveltGROWsutraKNOWsutra
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich NietzscheSHOWsutraKNOWsutra
Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor DostoyevskiGROWsutraGLOWsutra
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David ThoreauKNOWsutraGROWsutra
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora DuncanFLOWsutraGROWsutra
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane GoodallBOWsutraGROWsutra
Existence precedes essence.
Jean-Paul SartreGROWsutraFLOWsutra
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul SartreFLOWsutraGLOWsutra
Remember the earth whose skin you are... Remember to dance.
Joy HarjoGLOWsutraFLOWsutra
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Lao TzuFLOWsutraBOWsutra
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma GandhiGROWsutraKNOWsutra
I don’t know if I found my way, but I have walked enough to see that it’s all worth it.
Mary OliverFLOWsutraBOWsutra
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MolièreKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Before you learn the gravity of kindness, you must travel where sorrow lies.
Naomi Shihab NyeGLOWsutraGROWsutra
One man with courage is a majority.
Nelson MandelaGROWsutraKNOWsutra
You are the sky. Everything else–it’s just the weather.
Pema ChödrönFLOWsutraBOWsutra
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSHOWsutraGROWsutra
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel JohnsonKNOWsutraGROWsutra
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone WeilGLOWsutraGROWsutra
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinFLOWsutraGROWsutra
What is to give light must endure burning.
Victor FranklGROWsutraBLOWsutra
To love is to act.
Victor HugoGROWsutraBLOWsutra
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VoltaireGROWsutraKNOWsutra