Philosophical ideas to get through hard times

Bluebell
Beautiful thought.??

No act of kindness; no matter how small is ever wasted.
- Aesop

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

It is what it is. My husband and I used this a lot when he was dying. To me it means accepting things as they truly are, not regretting things that have gone or futilely wishing things were different.

Flowers grow back even after the harshest winter. You will too.
Buddhist quote.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

We need kindness more than cleverness.

True friends are like stars
You don t always see them
But they are always there

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

Auto correct Lemn Sissay

If you can see the white mist of the oasis
The red, white and blue that you defended
If you can see it all through the blackest pupil
The colours stretching the rainbow suspended
If you can see the breached blue dusk
And the caramel curls in swirls of tea
Why do you say you are colour blind when you see me?

Lemm Sissay

If opportunity does not knock, build a door.
Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

I believe that the only true religion consists of having a good heart.

Buddhist quote.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

James Howel

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see -- Mark Twain

It is what it is.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Ano

The Circle Around the Zero ~ by Rumi

A lover doesn’t figure the odds.

He figures he came clean from God
as a gift without a reason,
so he gives without cause
or calculation or limit.

A conventionally religious person
behaves a certain way
to achieve salvation.

A lover gambles everything, the self,
the circle around the zero!
He or she cuts and throws it all away.

This is beyond any religion.

Lovers do not require from God any proof,
or any text, nor do they knock on a door
to make sure this is the right street.

They run,
and they run.

~ Rumi

Losing a friend means that you have room to make another.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

When you focus on problems you get more problems.
Buddha.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Sweet dreams.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

"By going out of your mind, you come to your senses-"
Alan Watts

Don't look for happiness where you lost it.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

rosecarmel
I love elephants. I like the fact that they don't eat other animals and are therefore not hunters. Such a huge amount of foliage they must consume to sustain such a large body.
Dawn.

“Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There’s bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.”
― Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant