reality

 

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

Leonard Cohen

don't wait

 

Don't wait for things to be possible before doing them.

Anonymous

heart

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

home

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

future

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

less difficult

 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

mediocrity

 

The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham

living

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

silence

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things. It means that you are not disturbed inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

conversation

 

In order to have a conversation with someone, you must reveal yourself.

James Baldwin

freedom

 

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

destination

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust 

fall in love

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Robert Morely 

lost

 

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

Joan Littlewood

romantic

To me, romantic means you follow your heart more than your mind.

Wong Kar-wai 

beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

death

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Irish proverb

play

 

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Richard Buckminister Fuller

truth

 

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

freedom

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin 

truth

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

i

 

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin