dream

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream

Vincent Van Gogh

light

If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Rumi

truth

A truth that's told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake, 'Auguries of Innocence'

you

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Lord Buddha

be afraid

Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.

Anonymous

goodwill

Be courageous and anchor yourself in the rich soil of goodwill that supports you.

Osho

adversity

Adversity doesn't primarily build character; it reveals it.

ancient proverb

reveal

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Kahlil Gibran

style

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

let go

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing you go beyond sorrow.

Lord Buddha

always

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

change

Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

Paulo Coelho

rent

Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

Robert Tew

find

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child

darker

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck, 'The Winter of Our Discontent'

be

Be yourself everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

poverty

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

temptation

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

beauty

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Kahlil Gibran

imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

laughs

Earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

master

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parker

be

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Rumi

without

Without art, the cruelness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Geroge Bernard Shaw

they say

They say you are like a dream, not always what you seem.

Ray Charles, Ruby

everything

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

way

As you start to walk out of the way, the way appears.

Rumi

help

God helps those who help themselves.

Algernon Sydney (1698)

until...

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Nelson Mandela

kindness...

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!

George Elliston

i stand

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna (Ciccone)

to see

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Lao Tzu

remember

Just remember when you think all is lost, the future remains.

Robert H. Goddard

good

All good things are wild, and free.

Henry David Thoreau

light

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Rumi

create

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Anonymous ART of Revolution

listen

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

Rumi

conformity

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

soul

The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

cost

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

wise

A wise man is the master of his own mind. A fool is a slave to his.

Publilius Syrus

question

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

revolution

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

honesty

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

happiness

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Buddha

matters

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Siddhartha Gautama

book

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart.

Virginia Woolf

drawn

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Rumi

fun

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

2 sides

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain