light

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

soul

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

Henri Matisse

forgiveness

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

William Arthur Ward

opens

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Susan Sarandon

hell

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Neil Gaiman

breathe

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

Steve Maraboli

mirror

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

W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand

life

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

hear

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Ram Dass

think

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

fly

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

light

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

you

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your own stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Annie Lamott

blind

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

life

Life is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.

Steven Redhead, 'The Solution'

look

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Alice Walker

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

happiness

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I' invented it, because it is very true.

Audrey Hepburn

pause

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

secret

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

Socrates

gathers

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

new

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

Marianne Williamson

potential

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life is wasted...

C.G. Jung

heaven

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

me

All I can do is be me...whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

mixing

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertold Brecht

purpose

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

fearlessness

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is [the] courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Aung San Suu Kyi

function

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. i shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

secret

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Marcus Aurelius

beauty

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Khalil Gibran

glory

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

anger

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

repeat

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol

happiness

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry Thoreau

love

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Zora Neale Hurston

memory

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

wisdom

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

free

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

weapon

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

wisdom

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

do not

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

The Dalai Lama

beautiful

Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

optimism

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Helen Keller

follow

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

life

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

change

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

C.G. Jung

drop

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Khalil Gibran

follow

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell