dwell

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Lord Buddha

windows

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Henry Bromel

center

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

G.K. Chesterton

responsibility

In dreams begin responsibilities.

William Butler Yeats

conscious

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekanada

dreams

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on

William Shakespeare

greatest

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Lord Buddha

life

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

journey

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

crack

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

stupidity

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

love

Love is what dreams are made of.

Anonymous

fear

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Naguib Mahfouz

biggest

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

tell

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

truth

All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.

Margaret Fuler

live

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

stupidity

Stupidity is more prevalent than hydrogen in the universe.

Frank Zappa

fear

My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.

Anonymous

present

To be fully present to our experience as it is, without shrinking or turning away from it, is to be a warrior- of the heart.

John Welwood

government

Government is instituted for the common good: for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family or class of men.

President John Adams,
founding father

today

He said, "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

His Holiness the Dali Lama

end

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Lord Buddha (attributed to)

happiness

It is happiness to wonder; it is happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

remember

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Charles Bukowski

dearest

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Abraham Cahan

light

The best light which illuminates your path is your determination.

Mehmet Murat ildan

struggle

Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Coretta Scott King

today

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Lord Buddha (attributed to)

freedom

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

outgrow

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectation.

Ryunosuke Satoro

future

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

ours

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

experience

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience.

Paulo Coelho

life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Søren Kierkegaard

if

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

words

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

not

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

goal

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

Blaise Pascal

integrity

The highest degree of wisdom is integrity.

Shimon Peres

endure

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Fride Kahlo

facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

happiness

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

perception

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

William Blake

war

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George orwell

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

fear

My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.

Anonymous

you

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Michael Korda