worry

Worry is the darkroom in which 'negatives' are developed.

Anonymous

ego

The ego is not master in its own house.

Sigmund Freud

doors

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one, which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

chapters

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields

key

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

The Eagles from Already Gone

creation

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

past

The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

wrong

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way.

Anonymous

might

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

John Greenleaf Whittier

footfalls

Footfalls echo in the memory...Down the passage which we did not take...Towards the door we never opened.

T.S. Eliot

fondly

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly, To be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams

dare

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

Norman B. Rice

shadow

If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light.

Albert Einstein

all right

The fact that everything will be all right, does not necessarily make anything all right now.

Anonymous

cease

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace

night

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

Anonymous

independent

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

dark

An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

detect

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

honeybees

I dreamt last night, oh marvelous error, that there were honeybees in my heart, making honey out of my old failures.

Anthony Machado

daydream

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

W.H. Auden

attain

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

nature

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

Robert Collier

trifle

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

John Christian Bovee

invested

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

achieve

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

desire

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Anonymous

moments

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them they are gone.

George Eliot

serviceable

The waking mind ... is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

ceaselessly

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Gaston Bachelard

experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley