bequests

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

train

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

spiritual

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

companion

I've never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

victory

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

Sun Tzu

pictures

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

beauty

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Donna Tartt, "The Goldfinch"

prefer

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

live

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

impression

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

T.F. Hodge

little times

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Andy Warhol

tradition

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

happiness

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on what you think.

Lord Buddha

destination

My destination is no longer a place, but a way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

madness

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

if

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

character

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

art

Art washes away the dirty linens of materialism.
 
Rainer Maria Rilke

strength

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our hearts.

Rumi

fear

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Mahatma Ghandi

creativity

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

accomplishment

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Lord Buddha

convictions

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

letting to

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a party of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

you

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

we will

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Thomas Berry

voice

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

present

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

conditioned

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

transform

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Irving Wallace

felt

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

Helen Keller

confuse

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

looking

I don't believe people are looking for meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

inside

Inside myself is a place where I live alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

character

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm S. Forbes

faith

Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelou

rain

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charles Chaplin

wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

protects

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anaïs Nin

loss

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

journeys

All the journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Martin Buber

love and compassion

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

Dalai Lama

follow

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

dreams

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anaïs Nin

snobbery

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Alexander Theroux

all

There's no destination. The journey is all there is.

Srikumar Rao

stillness

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.

Lao Tzu

way

You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedriech Nietschze