maturity

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Marianne Williamson

without

Act without expectation.

Lao Tzu

inseparable

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

Nikola Tesla

be present

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

virtues

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for an single hour.

Robert Musil, Die Schwärmer

cognizant

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

two ways

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

advantage

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

Thelonious Monk

directions

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson

holds

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

attached

When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

chef's salad

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Lemony Snicket, 'The Grim Grotto'

right

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

judge

We tend to judge what is beautiful by what is familiar.

Jean Cocteau

trying

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

George Carlin

grateful

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full... Be grateful that you have a glass and there is something in it.

Anonymous

intervals

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

two ways

There are only two ways to live your life. One acting as if nothing is a miracle, the other acting as if everything is a miracle.  

Albert Einstein

seeking

What you are seeking is seeking you.

Rumi

gate

Still around the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.

J.R.R. Tolkien

inspire

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing every happened.

Winston Churchill

not until

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

watched

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watched them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

winds

The winds of knowledge are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Ramakrishna

lunatics

We are all lunatics... 'tis only the manner of our asylum that differs.

Andy Monk

how

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

happiness

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

today

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

Lord Buddha

ignorance

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Herman Melville

discipline

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

Jim Rohn

shortage

The real shortage we face is dreams, and the wherewithal and the will to make them come true.

Seth Godin

let go

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Steve Maraboli

enslaved

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

keeps

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

only

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

if

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

awe

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

decide

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Gandalf (from 'The Hobbit')

meets

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

dream

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon

equal

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

John F. Kennedy

silence

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr

more

The more you learn, the less you fear.

Julian Barnes

immortality

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Woody Allen

spiritual

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Teilhard Chardin

education

Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

learn

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein

letting go

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Eckhart Tolle

sychronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung