nostalgia

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Florence King

jump

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin

genius

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Valdimir Nabokov

point

Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

Sam Stevens

prejudices

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past.

Prentice Mulford

seem

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

feed

You can feed the body but if you don't feed the soul, you are empty.

Rav Ashlag

truth

Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth.

Rumi

fail

It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

music

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

miracles

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

Richard Wilkins

understand

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

speech

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

comfort

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Thomas Merton

happiness

Happiness is a perfume.  You cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

label

Once you label me you negate me.

Søren Kierkegaard

stubborn

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

new beginning

Every day is a new beginning stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.

Anonymous

universe

There is a whole extraordinary universe out there just waiting and wanting to help, if you can just get out of your own way and let it.

Elizabeth Brown

strive

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.

Bob Proctor

change

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.

Octavia Butler

insanity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

root

At the root of all knowledge, we find curiosity.

Alexandra Davis-Neel

playing

Life is not a matter of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

simple

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Rabindranath Tagore

silence

Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

Mandy Hale

simple

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

time

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Brian Andreas

joy

the joy in life doesn't usually come in long stretches for hours at a time, month after month, year after year ... but in moments.

anonymous

reflection

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Margaret J. Wheatley

decisions

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

Mingyur Rinpoche