wanders

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Hermann Hesse

rearrangement

There is no such thing as originality. Only a novel rearrangement of pre-existing ideas.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

different

Each wave of the sea has a different light, just as the beauty of those we love.

Virginia Woolf

beautiful moment

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Franz Grillparzer

peace

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

may

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

art

Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

your own

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

regretful

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Mary Oliver

facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

careful

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin

accept

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tole

pick

If you don't pick a direction soon, life will just hand you any old thing.

Rev. Run

without

The tongue like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.

Chinese proverb

seeking

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.

Joseph Cambell

right

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Albert Einstein

clear

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Proverb

new

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

sorrow

Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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miracle

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

words

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

understand

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

improve

Everything in your life will improve as soon as your determination to move forward is stronger than your reluctance to let go of the past.

Buddhist Boot Camp

paints

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmacher

madness

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

beginning

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. 

Oscar Wilde

only

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

door

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley