little times

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Andy Warhol

tradition

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

happiness

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on what you think.

Lord Buddha

destination

My destination is no longer a place, but a way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

madness

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

if

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

character

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

art

Art washes away the dirty linens of materialism.
 
Rainer Maria Rilke

strength

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our hearts.

Rumi

fear

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Mahatma Ghandi

creativity

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

accomplishment

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Lord Buddha

convictions

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

letting to

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a party of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

you

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

we will

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Thomas Berry

voice

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

present

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

conditioned

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

transform

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

Irving Wallace

felt

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

confuse

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

looking

I don't believe people are looking for meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

inside

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

Pearl S. Buck

character

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm S. Forbes

faith

Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelou

rain

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charles Chaplin

wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

protects

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anaïs Nin

loss

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

journeys

All the journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Martin Buber

love and compassion

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

follow

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

Joseph Campbell

dreams

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anaïs Nin

snobbery

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Alexander Theroux

all

There's no destination. The journey is all there is.

Srikumar Rao

stillness

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.

Lao Tzu

way

You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedriech Nietschze

cause

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

Eckhart Tolle

secret

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

i am

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

Carl Jung

know

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

Laurie Halse Anderson

think

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Marlene Dietrich

weapon

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all... is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

pretend

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

enlightenment

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

William Blake

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

doubt

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Anonymous

root

The root of suffering is attachment.

Lord Buddha