destiny

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom and even bear fruit? Yet we hope, we know it.

Joann Wolfgang Goethe

actions

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrrilyn Kenyon, "Born of Fury"

who

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Mary Oliver

art

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertoit Brecht

fire

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Aberjhani, "Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love"

determines

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Sandor McNab

remain

Both the happiness and sorrows of the world will pass away. So it is better to remain peaceful throughout.

Hafiz

change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

melancholia

The history of melancholia includes all of us.

Charles Bukowski

if

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Johann Sebastian Bach

plan

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

Rumi

thief

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

perception

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

scars

Scars remind us of where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going.

Mark Twain

obligés

nous ne sommes pas obligés d'obéir.
we are not obliged to obey.

perception

Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So it is true, that by altering this perception we can alter our reality.

William Constantine

follow

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

Allen Ginsberg

do not

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Socrates

home

We're all just walking each other home.

Ram Dass

soul

The soul is here for its own joy.

Rumi

interpretations

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

change

The only thing that is constant is change.

Heraclitus

wherever

Wherever you are is the entry point.

Kabir

deepen

Deepen your spirt of thankfulness. In doing so, you will be able to connect with everything around you, and you will certainly acquire whatever you need.

Byakko Shinko Kai

best

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Muhammad Ali

remember

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

hope

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

future

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

we

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

revolution

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara

remember

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

let's not

Let's not be narrow, nasty and negative.

TS Elliot

nourish

I nourish a seed named LOVE.

Rumi

scars

Scars remind us of where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going.

Mark Twain

enemy

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

Mahatma Gandhi

memories

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

end

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison

we

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

David Lynch

creativity

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

value

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel

be

Be – don't try to become.

Osho

bequests

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

gratitude

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual life opens up.

Eckhart Tolle

stagnates

I don't believe one grows older, I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T S Tlliot

start

Start wide, expand further and never look back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

dream

I dream sometimes, I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Marakami

everything

Everything that has existed, lingers in the eternity.

Agatha Christie

everyday

Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

offering

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.

Maya Angelou

you

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller

Happy New Year _ 2015