change

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

illiterate

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

skeleton

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

state

The Kingdom of heaven is a State of the heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche

meet

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Carl Jung

listen

Sit, be still and listen.

Rumi

i

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

love

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

Kahlik Gibran

at the time

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

David Foster Wallace

trust

You first have an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

any road

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll  'Alice in Wonderland'

not

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

death of

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Sylvia Plath

life

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

habits

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

sleep

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

D.H. Lawrence

life

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

do not

Do not waste your life by thinking about others' mistakes or what they think of you, or their karma will become yours.

Staguru Rama Mata

disguised

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Lao Tzu

sails

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

John Rohn

revolutionary

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

not enough

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Bruce Lee

sometimes

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

value

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Anonymous

carries

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand

must have

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

if

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Lord Buddha

self-confidence

Self-confidence is knowing that we have the capacity to do something good and firmly decide not to give up.

The Dalai Lama

dreams

dreamer... never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one's time. for dreams are our realities in waiting. in dreams, we plant the seeds of our future.

anonymous

impossible

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Sun Ra

heart

The very centre of your heart is where life begins the most beautiful place on earth.

Rumi

wisdom

Wisdom is greater and more difficult to attain than intellect, piety or spirituality.

Hazrat Inayat Kha

artist

Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

less concerned

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

mystery

The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience.

Joseph Campbell

you

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

unhappy

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

we are

Pulvis et umbra sumus.
We are but dust and shadow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

wanted

Hair is gray and the fires are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Tori Amos

wisdom

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the existence of God.

Aeschylus

positive

Spend your time with positive, ambitious people who have a plan for their lives. You will find that their optimism is infectious.

Napoleon Hill

existence

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Emily Bronte

worse

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

now

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

Lord Buddha

true sign

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

plow

You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Gordon B. Hinckley

what

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Rumi

struggle

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of the child at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

artists

Artists do not go where the path may lead, they go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

dreams

never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one's time. for dreams are our realities in waiting. in dreams, we plant the seeds of our future.

anonymous