heart

The very centre of your heart is where life begins the most beautiful place on earth.

Rumi

wisdom

Wisdom is greater and more difficult to attain than intellect, piety or spirituality.

Hazrat Inayat Kha

artist

Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

less concerned

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

mystery

The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience.

Joseph Campbell

you

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

unhappy

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

we are

Pulvis et umbra sumus.
We are but dust and shadow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

wanted

Hair is gray and the fires are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Tori Amos

wisdom

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the existence of God.

Aeschylus

positive

Spend your time with positive, ambitious people who have a plan for their lives. You will find that their optimism is infectious.

Napoleon Hill

existence

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Emily Bronte

worse

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

now

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

Lord Buddha

true sign

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

plow

You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Gordon B. Hinckley

what

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Rumi

struggle

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of the child at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

artists

Artists do not go where the path may lead, they go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

dreams

never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one's time. for dreams are our realities in waiting. in dreams, we plant the seeds of our future.

anonymous

hand

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Vera Nazarian

dancing

Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain.

Bunny Armstrong

lunatic asylum

The longer I live in the world, the more I tend to think that in the solar system, Earth is playing the role of a lunatic asylum. 

G. Bernard Shaw

nothing

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Maya Angelou

happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travel.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

day

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Neil deGrasse Tyson 

enlightened

 

One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

CG Jung

educating

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

comes

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

A.D. Williams

change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

if

If there's a light in your heart, you'll find your way home.

Rumi

rare

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

follow

Follow your bliss... and the Universe will open doors for you, where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

everything

Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

past

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past. 

William Faulkner

something

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

destiny

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

be

Be curious not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

depends

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. 

Marcus Aurelius

listen

You want the truth, I tell you the truth.
Listen to the voice of reality that is inside of your heart.

Kabir

dangerous

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

maturity

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Marianne Williamson

without

Act without expectation.

Lao Tzu

inseparable

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

Nikola Tesla

be present

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

virtues

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for an single hour.

Robert Musil, Die Schwärmer

cognizant

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

two ways

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

advantage

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

Thelonious Monk

directions

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson