wisdom

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

Socrates

follow

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

distinction

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

path

It is not the path which is the difficulty. It is the difficulty which is the path.

Søren Kierkegarrd

imagination

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

relation

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

thoughts

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Frierich Nietzsche

dream

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

hold

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Bruce Lee

is

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

weapon

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over the other.

William James

happiness

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

simple

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

life

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

complex

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Alan Kay

rekindled

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

thankful

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

playing

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

soul

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!! let the SOUL emerge.

Rumi

risk

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

clearly

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

flower

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Malcolm de Chazal

overcome

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

stop

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Leonard Cohen

life

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

wheel

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

task

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

unfold

Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Ray Bradbury

light

We all have a beautiful light within... We just sometimes forget it is there.

John Holland

solved

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein

expectations

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

secret

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

approving

You've been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise Hay

so

love is so short. forgetting is so long.

pablo neruda

lethal

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.

Paulo Coelho

lose

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ajar

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

awake

An awake Heart is like a sky that pours LIGHT.

Rumi

past

We may be through with the past, but the past isn't through with us.

P.T. Anderson, "Magnolia"

happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

His Holiness Dalai Lama

same

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein

enough

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

change

Isn't it funny how day to day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.

C.S. Lewis

see

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

indescribable

You are as you are, an indescribable message on the air.

Rumi

laughter

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

ridicule

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wile

wheel

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again.

Stephen King

norm

Throughout history war has been the norm, peace the exception.

Susan Sontag

gone

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