bequests

There are only two lasting bequests we can give to our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

every

Every 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

gratitude

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

William Arthur Ward

silence

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

purpose

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

worry

Worry gives a small thing a great shadow.

Swedish proverb

fear

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H.P. Lovecraft

circumstances

Circumstances do not determine your character; they reveal it and become the occasion to refine it.

Harry L. Reeder III

dreams

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Sigmund Freud

nature

If you tuly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

truth

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

George Orwell

fall

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

kind

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

concerned

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

departure

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

attention

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amy Adams

perceptions

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

world

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves by its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

grieve

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

matters

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

Henry David Thoreau

difference

The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.

Anonymous

knowing

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have have enough, you are truly rich.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

survival

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert, Dune

pretend

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

fashion

Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.

Bill Cunningham

glazing

One problem with glazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Michael Cibenko

care

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

cling

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

take sides

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

compliment

Being considered "crazy" by those who are still victims of cultural conditioning is a compliment.

Jason Hairston