live

Live out your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

time

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

authentic

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

everybody

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Moore

laughter

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Frida Kahlo

felt

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

secret

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

without

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

David Bly

sides

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

beware

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

poets

Poets are not merely those who write poetry, but those whose hearts are full of the spirit of life.

Kahlil Gibran

new

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

lie

So lie to me, but do it with sincerity. Make me listen just for a minute. Make me think there's some truth in it.

Depeche Mode - Lie To Me

striving

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

David Bly

difficult

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

C.G. Jung

happiness

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

can

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

necessities

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The Dala Lama

never

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

Montaigne

once

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

possibility

May your walls know joy, each room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility!"

Mary Anne Radmacher

knows

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

Caroline Myss

seek

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

Rumi

invest

The miracles start to happen when we invest as much energy into our dreams as in our fears.

Richard Wilkins

necessities

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. 

The Dalai Lama

freedom

As I walked out the door toward my freedom, I knew that if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind that I would still be in prison.

Nelson Mandela

tree

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Amelia Earhart

life

Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

one of those

May this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just  doing what you should.

Lev Grossman

stories

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Douglas Kennedy

neither

The fact that there is insanity in the world proves that there is some sanity in it as well and we take sides on either subject when neither are good or bad.

Grim Reaper