free

You are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.

a Universal paradox

personal

The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Marianne Williamson

beginning

The beginning is the most important part of any work.

Plato

hope

He who has health has hope and he who had hope has everything.

Arabic proverb

freedom

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

habit

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

enlightened

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

every day

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Zen proverb

dream

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

Edgar Allan Poe

discovery

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

opportunity

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Jackson Browne

i

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Paul Valéry

job

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Arthur Miller

path

... there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Anonymous

noble...

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

greatest sin

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Elie Wiesel

mastering

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

sharing

Not the ones speaking the same language but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Rumi

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephan Hawking

sorrow

Whatever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand.

Rumi

truths

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

bridge

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Phyllis Theroux

combo

Intelligence without ambitions is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

i might add ambition without intelligence isn't such a good thing either!

information

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

open

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity and do not let expectations hinder my path.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

light

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Buddhist saying

folly

where ignorance is bliss. 'tis folly to be wise.

Anonymous

movement

Trust only movement. Life happens at the levels of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Alfred Adler

silence

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Rumi

way

The way to take care of the future is also to take good care of the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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