trees

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

space

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankl

paths

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. 

Leo Tolstoy

joy

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

meet

People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves.

Anonymous

passion

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Martin Parr

never

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

he

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

blessings

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude. 

Leonard Cohen

human

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

George Orwell

known

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

artist

The artist observes something invisible to others.

William S. Burroughs

wander

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires.

Clarissa Pinakola Estéa, Women Who Run With the Wolves"

disturbs

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan

failings

 

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective.

Stephen Fry

art

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

trees

Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau 

dreams

 

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Salvador Dali

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth

worry

Worry gives a small thing a great shadow.

Swedish proverb

every

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Thomas Merton

shadow

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

most

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Butler Leacok

touch

Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Never touch your idols: the gilding may stick to your fingers.

Gustave Flauber

dreams

 

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our hearts.

Terri Guillemets

sanity

For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means a lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

change

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

forest

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Gunter Grass

grief

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

silence

Silence is so freaking loud.

Sara Dessen, Just Listen 

room

 

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver