once

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

ne t'en fais

ne t'en fais pas, tout va bien.
don't worry, it's all right.

landscape

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

Josephine Hart

armour

Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.

Jeanette Winterson

peace

Happy Christmas
may peace prevail on earth

truth

The truth is: I remember everything that happened, everything that did not happen, everything that might have.

Alison Stine

sick

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

human

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

we

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

Buddha

character

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

trust

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter or broken. Hush until you're healed.

Samuel Johnson

pé...

in guadeloupe pé is the creole word for peace.

may peace prevail on earth

solh...

in iraq solh is the farsi word for peace.

may peace prevail on earth

vienosti...

in finland vienosti is a karelian word for peace.

may peace prevail on earth

peace...

may peace prevail on earth

and in me

nerane'i...

in bolivia nerane'i is a guarani word for peace.

may peace prevail on earth

santi...

in nepal santi is the hindi word for peace.

may peace prevail on earth

monachopsis

Monachopsis is the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

occhiolism

Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective in the grandness of the vast scope of the Universe.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

saints

You meet saints everywhere.
They can be anywhere.
They are people behaving decently
in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

today

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

hold

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you might still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

vaccuum

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Anonymous

know

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

answers

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce

turn

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

you

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.

Tom Bradley

illustrations

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

dreams

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Robert Conklin

la france

viva la france.

argue

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

improves

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandi

incredible

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

aim

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

light

If you wish for the Light, be ready to receive Light.

Rumi

you

You cannot Fix what you will not Face.

James Baldwin

learn

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

W.H. Auden

difficult

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

innocence

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

James Baldwin

how to

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escapte time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.

Anonymous

wisdom

To manifest wisdom means simply to step back and see - to reflect, inquire, be aware, be disciplined, and be focused not once in a while, but all the time, moment to moment. This life is precious and fleeting. Pay attention.

Seido Ray Ronci, "The Examined Life"

new

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Marie Antoinette

hell

Hell is empty. All the devils are here...

William Shakespeare

person

The person who says it cannot be done Should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese proverb

needed

It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass

dangerous

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Albert Einstein

slander

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.

Socrates

tree

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Rumi

mementos

In theory, mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact, they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.

Joan Didion