compared

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

reality

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Gao Xingjian

sleeping

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

egocentric

One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Evelyn Waugh

trail

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.

Stoddard King, Jr.

ruffled

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Brontë

say

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Lord Buddha

peace

Happy Thanksgiving
may peace prevail on earth

life

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

destiny

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

wings

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

freedom

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

Søren Kierkegaard

diet

Your diet is not only what you eat. It's what you watch, what you listen to, and what you read, the people you hang around... be mindful of the things you put into your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.

Anonymous

poetry

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

important

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Patrick Lindsay

tears

Je versai plus de larmes que Dieu n'en a pu jamais demander.
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

Arthur Rimbaud

kindness

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

greatest

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

Lord Buddha

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

stupid

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

past

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Alan Moore

dangerous

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.