prayer

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Tennessee Williams

dangerous

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin

recovering

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

not

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Leonard Cohen

common sense

Common snese is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business.

Ehab Atalla

better

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

reflection

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Margaret J. Wheatley

prefer

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

now

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

use

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

W.T. Purkiser

I am

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung

timing

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

Anna Wintour

happy

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Helen Keller

love

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

Inavat Khan

task

Our task must be to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

now

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

self-realization

Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

imagination

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

action

The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.

WillOm Light Path

don't ... aren't

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

change

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

you

What you are comes to you...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

better

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Diane Grant

courage

It's important to have the courage to say what needs to be said at the crucial moment.

Daisaku Ikeda

see

Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

understand

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

check

Always check your inner state with the lord of your heart.

Rumi

11:11...

I guess I could still watch the clouds roll by make a wish on a shooting star.

Piglet

judge

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Søren Kierkegaard

diet

Loneliness is the diet of the soul.

Francesco Algarotti

nothing

Nothing fades as fast as the future. Nothing clings like the past.

Peter Gabriel

inspiration

When inspiration does not come to meet me, I go halfway to meet it.

Sigmund Freud

paralyzing

There is nothing more paralyzing to the progress of our species than cowering from death.

Carl Jung

path

Till we find our place. On the path unwinding. In the circle. The circle of life.

Elton John

interrupt

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese Proverb

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, Infinte Jest

trust

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

destiny

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

Henry Miller

nostalgia

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Florence King

jump

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin

genius

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Valdimir Nabokov

point

Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

Sam Stevens

prejudices

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past.

Prentice Mulford

seem

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

feed

You can feed the body but if you don't feed the soul, you are empty.

Rav Ashlag

truth

Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth.

Rumi

fail

It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

music

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

miracles

The miracles start to happen when we invest as much energy into our dreams as in our fears.

Richard Wilkins