regrets

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

John Barrymore

unsettling

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Brett Butler

permits

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

end

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

afraid

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

revolution

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

Charles Bukowski

withdraw

The best political, social and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

C.G. Jung

grateful

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

Marcel Proust

creativity

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

Maya Angelou

tragedy

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

profit

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm

argue

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of all reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

made

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi

foot

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Paulo Coelho

acting

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Susan Sontag

real

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

John Lennon

see

The only people who see the whole picture,  he murmured, are the ones who step out of the frame.

Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

world

Each friend represents a world in us, a world of possibly not born until they arrive.

Anäis Nin

imagination

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Lewis Carroll

truth

Truth is outside of all patterns.

Bruce Lee

transitioning

When you are transitioning to a new season of life, the people and situations that no longer fit you will fall away.

Mandy Hale

becomes

Time passes, and little by little everything we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

future

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

yours

It is your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you but they cannot walk it for you.

Rumi

fear

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Yoda

within

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

illusion

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Judy Garland

freedom

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

service

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

nostalgia

Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. No one was safe from its onslaught.

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

wisdom

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein