do

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

compassion

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, nor a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

The Dali Lama

task

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

until

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

find

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

Rumi

fear

Fear is pain arising from anticipation of evil.

Aristotle

content

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever stat I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

without

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

if

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Charles Barkley

interpreters

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

if

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

must not

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows or sees.

Benjamin Frankin

bloom

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

you

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A.A. Milne

awoke

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.

Dante Alighieri

grateful

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

Marcel Proust

change

Life's picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Rumi

play

Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parker

again

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Lord Buddha

silent

Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.

C.J. Redwine, Defiance

light

Someday perhaps, the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

illuminated mind

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

compatibly

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams

anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Lord Buddha

live

Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

Paramahansa Yogananda

blinders

Put blinders on those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Meryl Streep

quieter

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Ram Dass

a work

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Cocteau

light

Light thinks it travel faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett

shadowy

The boundaries which separate life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and the other begins.

Edgar Allan Poe

hope

There is hope in dreams, imagination and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Jonas Salk

dream

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream

Vincent Van Gogh

light

If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Rumi

truth

A truth that's told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake, 'Auguries of Innocence'

you

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Lord Buddha

be afraid

Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.

Anonymous

goodwill

Be courageous and anchor yourself in the rich soil of goodwill that supports you.

Osho

adversity

Adversity doesn't primarily build character; it reveals it.

ancient proverb

reveal

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Kahlil Gibran

style

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

let go

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing you go beyond sorrow.

Lord Buddha

always

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

change

Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

Paulo Coelho

rent

Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

Robert Tew

find

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child

darker

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck, 'The Winter of Our Discontent'

be

Be yourself everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

poverty

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

temptation

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

beauty

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Kahlil Gibran