pebble

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Muhammad Ali

happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

door

Every wall is a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

shorthand

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

inner music

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

silence

Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation.

Rumi

training

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

time

Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval.

Ursula K. Le Guin

no matter

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

dream

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our paths emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

Ernest Dowson

miracles

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible.

Rumi

boundaries

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

change

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

Socrates

illiterate

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

skeleton

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

state

The Kingdom of heaven is a State of the heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche

meet

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Carl Jung

listen

Sit, be still and listen.

Rumi

i

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

love

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

Kahlik Gibran

at the time

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

David Foster Wallace

trust

You first have an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

any road

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll  'Alice in Wonderland'

not

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

death of

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Sylvia Plath

life

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

habits

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

sleep

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

D.H. Lawrence

life

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

do not

Do not waste your life by thinking about others' mistakes or what they think of you, or their karma will become yours.

Staguru Rama Mata

disguised

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Lao Tzu