life

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent.
"It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

Gabriel Garcia Márquex

truth

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

Neil Degrasse Tyson

mistakes

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in making them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

humor

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

all

For all that is past, thank you. For all that is future, yes.

Dag Hammarskjold

loses

Our loses in life don't have to define us or constrain us except in the ways we choose. They can make us more exceptional, more deeply caring, moreover we don't have to be made bitter by them.

Jewel

glad

Be glad of life for it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

risk

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Herb Brooks

depends

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Gloria Steinem

truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

original

Your original self is worth more than your imitation os someone else.

Matshona Dhiwayo

drifts

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

George Orwell

perplexity

Perhaps the greatest perplexity of aging is how to fill with gentleness the void between who we feel we are on the inside and who our culture tells us is staring back from the mirror.

Ursula LeGuin

never

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

ends

Our power ends precisely where our fear begins...

Melissa Etheridge

awaken

What I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

freedom

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

fear

Fear is a feeling, not a fact.

Pamela Teagarden

rage

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage
Rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

dreaming

I am a dream still dreaming.

N. Waheed

seeing

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo

dreaming

We tell ourselves to to stop dreaming and grow up. Sometimes the world says it for us. But we need our dreams in order to survive. It's no more an option than breathing.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

control

When you can't control what's happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what's happening. That's where your power is.

Peaceful Warrior

home

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

don't

Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

within

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

laugh

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

rekindled

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

quality

A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

William Shakespeare