who

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.

Maurice Freehill

fear

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Hafiz

listen

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.

Alfred Brendel

vision

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

kindness

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

Lord Buddha

love

Know that it is the waves of love that turn the wheels of Heaven.

Rumi

gate

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

alive

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

twice

You can't make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it's no longer a mistake, it's a choice.

Anonymous

thinking

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

recognizing

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Keonig

chance

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

time

Time in not something you make, it's something you take.

Anonymous

time

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

(internet photo)

beauty

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire

longer

You live longer once you realize that any time spent unhappy is wasted.

Ruth E. Renkl

why

Why stop dreaming when you wake up?

Anonymous

surrender

Your dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Wayne Cordeiro

go

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Robert Cummings

(this is dedicated to sam d. who unwittingly provides many dream quotes)

courage

All of our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

beginning

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

hold

Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken, winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

people

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Plato

best

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

settling

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

beginning

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

sing

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

Rumi

surprise

There are no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

Jincy Willett

expectation

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Robert Anthony

distinction

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

how

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Plato

intrepretation

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

truth

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

hope

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Joseph Addison

chance

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

dwell

Dwell in thought upon the grandest, and the grandest you shall see. Fix your mind upon the highest, and the highest you shall be.

Anonymous

once

What is now proved was once imagined.

Robert Blake

convictions

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

William F. Scholavino

goes on

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

light

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

seeds

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

dancer

But my soul is a passionate dancer, it bounces around for an inner dance music, only I can hear and not the others.

Bettina von Amin

soul

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

poetry

Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

lucid

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together.

Michel Leiris

dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if Hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream

care

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or for ill.

Lord Buddha

happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

limited

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Anonymous