resist

What you resist, persists.

C. G. Jung

one

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. 

Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. 

Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Lao Tzu 

let

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

moment

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

tolerates

No artist tolerates reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

imagine

Imagine if all humanity lived in the spirit of love and respect. This is peace on earth. This is heaven.

A.D. Williams

nothing

We remember nothing and forget everything because nothing is better than anything.

Serge Gainsbourg

free

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach

cure

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

more real

"Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see."

Arthur Golden

begin

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.

Francis Bacon

cynic

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

what

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

tried

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

fulfillment

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

old

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

dreams

Men are the dreams of shadows.

Pindar

difference

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Mark Twain

meaning

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

understand

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus

past

The past is never where you think you left it.

Katherine Anne Porter

plant

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

memories

Memories warm you up from the inside.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

imagination

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Lewis Carroll

risk

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Herb Brooks

walk

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thích Nhár Hanh

mainspring

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Charles Baudelaire

future

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

Leonard I. Sweet

accepts

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King, Jr

you

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide to not be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

things

The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.

Anonymous