obscured

The future seems to be waiting for me in a dream obscured by reality.

Edward M. Donnelly

necessarily

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

look

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Padmasambhava (Padum), 8th century CE

dash

When you think about it, in the big scheme of things, our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup -- important for richness of flavor, but still, not quite the main ingredient.

Alyson Noel

luxuries

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

be ready

If you wish for light Be ready to receive light.

Rumi

silence

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

even

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

mirrors

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

new day

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L.M. Montgomery

joy

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

sorrows

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

once

Once you know the truth, you cannot Go back to not knowing.

Iyanaia Vanzant

we

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

feet

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln

calendar

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Naguib Mahfouz

box

Instead of thinking outside of the box, get rid of the box.

Deepak Chopra

to achieve

To achieve something truly extraordinary, start with the dream. Then wake up and go quietly to the end of a line of your dreams without ever being discouraged.

Walt Disney

art

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

craving

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

William James

focused

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

T.F. Hodge

optional

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Max Lucado

way

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

practice

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Frank Brady

grateful

Let us be grateful to people who make up happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

absorb

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

moral

One becomes moral as soon one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

choices

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

Abraham Hicks

men

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

soil

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

Wendell Berry

light

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

you

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

something

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you've seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

Bob Dylan

depenent

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

Steve Maraboli

distinctions

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Lord Buddha

kindness

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

life

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Marty Rubin

believe

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

Paulo Coelho

numbing

Numbing the pain for awhile will make it worse when you finally feel it.

JK Rowling

vision

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

all

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allen Poe

logic

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

beware

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

truly

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Anonymous

happy

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

not getting

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

The Dalai Lama

you

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

Anonymous

today's

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

real

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shakur

again

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

Arthur Wing Pinero