art

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.

Terry Guillemets

let go

Just let to. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Caroline Myss

shadow

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Sophocles

shine

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

Sean Faircloth

gift

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

Adam Pascal

world

The world is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anais Nin

tragic

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

night

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

doubt

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

confuse

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman, Mirror Mask

highest

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe ourself without judgement.

Krishnamurti

curiosity

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

can't

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

difficult

Yes, but it is difficult to get what we need when it isn't what we truly want.

Jess Michaels

know

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it.

Janelle Cooper

dangerous

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

James Baldwin

anger

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Lord Buddha

beauty

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

obvious

The world is full of obvious things which nobody ever takes care to observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

truth

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

weed

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

love

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

life

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

Søren Kierkegaard

seems

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

beauty

To love beauty is to see the light.

Victor Hugo

haunts

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Mitch Alborn

absurd

The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Albert Camus

others

The eyes of others our prisons, their thoughts our cages.

Virginia Woolf

capable

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexanre Dumas

real...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

artistic

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh

seems

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

find

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

learn

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

love

I believe that unarmed truth and conditional love will have the final word in reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr

interfere

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form on generosity.

Simone Weil

everything

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

never

A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

repeatedly

We are what we repeatedly do.

Aristotle

advised

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

present

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Lord Buddha

heart

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

stretched

A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

gift

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

serenity

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and find serenity.

Lama Surya Das

cause

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

madman

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

we make

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

2014

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