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