hold

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

truth

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

stumble

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

understood

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell, 1984

anger

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

teachings of the Buddha

prejudices

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

within

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Italian proverb

love

Love conceals ugliness, and hate sees many faults.

Irish proverb

withholding

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

honeyed words

When  one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides, Orestes

fooled

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

dream

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Yoko Ono

present

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

Lord Buddha

optimism

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

good life

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

sees

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

anonymity

Anonymity breeds meanness.

Sam Atlman

peace

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Gautama Buddha

difficult

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

cure

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

English Proverb

common

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

memory

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

we

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

Buddhist quote

wisest

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

must

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough: we must do.

Bruce Lee

joy

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Lord Buddha

touch

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

stop

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin

wall

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

 Sam Shepard