instead

Instead of resisting changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think "my life will be upside down" don't worry. How do you know down is not better than up?

Shams Tabrizi

see

We do not see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.

Talmud

light

As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.

Albert Einstein

best

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

start

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

The Secret

quiet

Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.

Kathryn L. Nelson

light

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafiz of Shiraz

save

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

Pablo Neruda

breath

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

silence

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Eckhart Tolle

blind

The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.

Anonymous

enslaved

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Goethe

movement

You can watch a clock tick. You can witness a sunrise or a sunset, but that is not time. That is simply movement.

Zen Proverb

problem

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

me

Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

Rumi

truth

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Elvis Presley

too

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

disguised

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Lao Tzu

silence

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Rumi

truth

Let truth be your goal

Meher Baha

done

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

exploration

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

you

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Rumi

mind

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

doing

The shortest answer is doing.

Lord Herbert

folly

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Grey

rain

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Arabian Proverb

peace

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Lord Buddha

after

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Anonymous

action

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold Glasow

mistake

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

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