truth

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

plant

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

be

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

transform

Every man can transform the world from on monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Irving Wallace

day

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

Rumi

patience

Patience is not simple the ability to wait... it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

changed

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

man

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa

shadow

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

Richard O'Brien

birth

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them. Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

live

I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.

dele olanubi

time

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer

day

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

shame

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

C.G. Jung

wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

inside

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

genius

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

self-realization

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

Ramana maharshi

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