life

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

Leonard Nimoy

live

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

owning

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Deepak Chopra

seek

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

part

I am a part of all that I have met.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

not

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

Scott Cunnningham

love

Our love will be the light and the darkness shall perish beneath the weight of it.

Andrea Zuvich, The Stuart Vampire

freedom

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

life

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Umberto Eco

don't

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

reexamine

Reexamine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

light

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Robert Hunter

friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

day

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

control

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

life

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

stupidity

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

seeker

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

dream

Today reminds me that I should not give up on good things in life. If one dream seems to die it does not mean that it won't rise again.

Hal Rogers

integrity

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

C.S. Lewis

see

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

imagination

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

wander

All those who wander are not lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

battles

The sage battles his/her own ego.
The fool battles everyone else's.

Sufi Proverb

lies

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

hope

Hope costs nothing.

Colette

dreams

Dreams are true while they last and do we not live in dreams.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

interpretation

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Lawrence Durrell

dance

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

W.H. Auden

react

Each time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Deepak Chopra