gather

hopes and dreams

gather like clouds

only to be swept away

by the wind

d donato

follow

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

life

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

light

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Anaïs Nin

believing

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Goethe

answers

It may appear as though the answers to your questions can only be found somewhere out there. But the truth is that 'out there' is a mere reflection of "in here". Look within your own heart for the answers you seek. The world will reflect what you find.

Dorothy Mendoza Row

word

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Lord Buddha

crave

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

difference

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

luck

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Timothy Zahn

worry

Worry is the darkroom in which 'negatives' are developed.

Anonymous

ego

The ego is not master in its own house.

Sigmund Freud

doors

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one, which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

chapters

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields

key

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

The Eagles from Already Gone

creation

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

past

The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

wrong

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way.

Anonymous

might

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

John Greenleaf Whittier

footfalls

Footfalls echo in the memory...Down the passage which we did not take...Towards the door we never opened.

T.S. Eliot

fondly

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly, To be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams

dare

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

Norman B. Rice

shadow

If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light.

Albert Einstein

all right

The fact that everything will be all right, does not necessarily make anything all right now.

Anonymous

cease

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace

night

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

Anonymous

independent

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

dark

An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

detect

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

honeybees

I dreamt last night, oh marvelous error, that there were honeybees in my heart, making honey out of my old failures.

Anthony Machado

daydream

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

W.H. Auden

attain

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

nature

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

Robert Collier

trifle

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

John Christian Bovee

invested

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

achieve

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

desire

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Anonymous

moments

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them they are gone.

George Eliot

serviceable

The waking mind ... is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

ceaselessly

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Gaston Bachelard

experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

stars

Dreams are like stars... you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.

Anonymous

why not

You see thing; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

advances

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

overrated

Reality is overrated.

Anonymous

remold

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

John Dewey

new eyes

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

reality

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anonymous

restrain

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

stop

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson