i am

I am nourished by the past, I am questioning the present, and I am stepping into the future.

Ellsworth Kelly

found

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

time

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of your life.

Anonymous

imagine

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

John Green, Paper Towns

staying

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important.

George Orwell, 1984

your mind

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Martin

happiness

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

Mahatma Gandhi

do not

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

painful

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

Mandy Hale

where

Ask not where the past has been, but where is the future headed?

Feisal Mosieh

future

It is never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

Andrei Linde

as long

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Criss Jami

future

The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

sign

Anger is a sign that something needs to change.

Mark Epstein

illusions

What do we or any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

W. Somerset Maugham

planted

Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.

Christine Caine

story

Everything's a story - You are a story - I am a story.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

trade

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

Tony Robbins.

time

Time is a created thing. To say, 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to'.

Lao Tzu

shine

The souls of some people shine so bright, that even their shadows bathe us in light.

Shakieb Orgunwall

revenge

That is the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f***ing life.

Chuck Palahniuk

power

Fear has force, but only love has real power.

Marianne Williamson

change

Change your thoughts and you change the world.

Norman Vincent Peale

leaving

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

A. Lynn

you

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Bob Marley

love

 

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Leo Tolstoy

obvious

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

tale

But all this world is like a tale we hear -
Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Ferdowski

breathing

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Criss Jami

notice

People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

shadow

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

same

The path up and down are one and the same.

Heraclitus

new

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

Marianne Williamson

met

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Jeanette Winterson

memories

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

B.J. Neblett

let go

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

fear

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Thomas Aquinas

risk

Risk anything! care no more for the opinions of others... Do the hardest thing on earth for youself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

trade

Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

Tony Robbins

way

The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.

Sydney J. Harris

emotional

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jeanette Winterson

soul

Your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

somewhere

Anywhere seems nowhere, yet somewhere seems everywhere.

Anonymous

circle

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Jeanette Winterson

inventing

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Lewis Carroll

alive

Don't ask yourself what the world needs: ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

man

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

impossible

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

new

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Chico Xavier

complacency

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Nick Cave