approval

 

Wanting approval...is a kind of aggression.

Allen Ginsberg

faith

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

real

 

It looks real, but it's not real.

Eikoh Hosoe

memory

 

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

loudest

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

doubts

 

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

aim

 

The aim of argument or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

Joseph Joubert

know

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Isaac Newton

hand

 

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand. The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn

lived

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

W. H. Auden

we

 

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

heart

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi

old

How old are you? As old as my tongue and older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

words

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

mind

 

All things are preceded by the mind, led by the mind, created by the mind.

Lord Buddha

 

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

kinder

 

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Aldous Huxley

character

 

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Augustine of Hippo

life

 

The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

C.G. Jung

despair

 

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

faith

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

presence

 

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

wound

 

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami

love

 

I fall in love everyday, with ideas and sensations, people I see. I hold them long enough to let them go, but I keep them in my heart and in my soul.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

imagination

 

The effort of the imagination is to turn the boundary into a horizon. The boundary says, 'Here and no further.' the horizon ways, 'welcome.'"

Barry Lopez

opener

Be an opener of doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Malala Yousafzai

read

 

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. 

Ivern Ball

acceptance

 

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle