careful

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin

accept

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tole

pick

If you don't pick a direction soon, life will just hand you any old thing.

Rev. Run

without

The tongue like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.

Chinese proverb

seeking

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.

Joseph Cambell

right

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Albert Einstein

clear

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Proverb

new

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

sorrow

Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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miracle

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

words

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

understand

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

improve

Everything in your life will improve as soon as your determination to move forward is stronger than your reluctance to let go of the past.

Buddhist Boot Camp

paints

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmacher

madness

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

beginning

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. 

Oscar Wilde

only

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

door

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

change

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono

exploration

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

Ansel Adams

comes

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell

youth

Reason is a staff for age, when nature's gone. But youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

feeling

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; Serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

whisper

It is not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

plant

When you plant a tree every leaf that grows will tell you, what you sow will bear fruit.

So if you have any sense, my friend don't plant anything but Love.

Rumi

tests

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chiua Achebe

secrets

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

all

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Fernando Pessoa

row, row

Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.

popular nursery rhyme

people

I don't know any perfect people - only really, really flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

decisions

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

Mingyur Rinpoch

if you want

If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.

Rumi

distinction

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling i get from life and way I translate that feeling into painting.

Henri Matisse

time

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Umberto Eco,  Foucault's Pendulum

eyes

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Tony Arata

energy

Everything is energy. In this field of energy, like attracts like. What you think, you create.

Neale Donald Walsch

searching

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Rumi

live

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

nows

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

riches

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

child

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Issac Newton

until

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

justice

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

function

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Sir Thomas Beecham

not

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

music

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

kind

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

no fear

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no Fear.

Rumi

creativity

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

Albert Einstein