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