value

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Jean Rhys, Quartet

darker

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

faculty

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

William Faulkner

way

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

optional

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

truth

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Rumi

grateful

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

connect

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us.

Herman Melville

deaf

Nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf.

Terence Mckenna

dangerous

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin L. King, Jr

watch

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl

dream

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

friends

I cannot even image where I would be today were not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles Swindoll

reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

earth

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

hide

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Kim Dong Hwa

what it

In my experience, nothing is ever what it seems to be, but everything is exactly what it is.

Buckaroo Banzai

appreciation

Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach in impasse in life.

Daisaku Ikeda

death

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.


Haruki Murakami, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:24 Stories"

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

some

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow...

Louise May Alcott, "Little Women"

listening

I started listening to the teaching of my soul.

Rumi

everything

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

shine

The light in your soul is far greater than the darkness. Shine your light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

spring

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

genius

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

life

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

soul

Your soul dreams those dreams; not your body, not your mind. Those dreams come true.

Native American tradition

all

I am a part of all that I have met.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

curiosity

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

road

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Romanian proverb

inside

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Anthony Liccione