dream

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon

strengthens

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

time

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson

restore

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology and art - we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Anaïs Nin

found

People look for miracles, people look for wonders, people expect surprised of all kinds. Yet the greatest wonder, the greatest miracle, the greatest surprise is to be found in one's heart.

Muhammad Ali

wonder

The world yet holds a wonder, and how great!

Rainer Maria Rilke

wisdom

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and world around us.

Socrates

inside

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Rumi

key

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Pete Seeger

life

Life: standing inside an hourglass, meanwhile you can see the sand coming down slowly and in the end you will be completely buried.

Dagmar D.I.R

we

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

life

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

disappears

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears.

Marianne Williamson

embrace

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Caroline Myss

goal

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr

inaction

Iron rusts from disuse, water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

embrace

Embrace the Light and let it guide you beyond the winds of desire.

Rumi

conformity

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

John F. Kennedy

protect

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

why

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

creation

Most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Nevelson

renounced

To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

everything

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

madness

A man need a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis, "Zorba the Greek'

mystical

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

wind

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

stay

Stay close to anything that you makes you glad you are alive.

Hafiz

purpose

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

needs

A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

few

Love all, Trust a few.

William Shakespeare

task

Our task must be to...embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

art

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.

Terry Guillemets

let go

Just let to. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Caroline Myss

shadow

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Sophocles

shine

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

Sean Faircloth

gift

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

Adam Pascal

world

The world is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anais Nin

tragic

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

night

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

doubt

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

confuse

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman, Mirror Mask

highest

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe ourself without judgement.

Krishnamurti

curiosity

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

can't

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

difficult

Yes, but it is difficult to get what we need when it isn't what we truly want.

Jess Michaels

know

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it.

Janelle Cooper

dangerous

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin

anger

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Lord Buddha

beauty

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo