lunatic asylum

The longer I live in the world, the more I tend to think that in the solar system, Earth is playing the role of a lunatic asylum. 

G. Bernard Shaw

nothing

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Maya Angelou

happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travel.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

day

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Neil deGrasse Tyson 

enlightened

 

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

CG Jung

educating

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

comes

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

A.D. Williams

change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

if

If there's a light in your heart, you'll find your way home.

Rumi

rare

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

follow

Follow your bliss... and the Universe will open doors for you, where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

everything

Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

past

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past. 

William Faulkner

something

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

destiny

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

Jean de La Fontaine

be

Be curious not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

depends

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. 

Marcus Aurelius

listen

You want the truth, I tell you the truth.
Listen to the voice of reality that is inside of your heart.

Kabir

dangerous

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

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