common

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

dreaming

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

educated

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

unhappiness

There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness.

Alain de Botton

laugh

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

Irish proverb

free

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

peace

may peace prevail on earth

can't

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

change

Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.

Pope Francois

live

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

James Baldwin

nothing

Nothing in life is to feared, it is not to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more.

Marie Curie

hide

Once you know there's no place to hide, then you wonder who are you hiding from.

Ram Dass

confused

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

madness

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Virginia Woolf

banish

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

fun

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

start

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

Stephen King

control

Never has humanity had such control over itself, yet nothing ensures that it will be used wisely.

Pope Francis

cling

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with the pain.

James Baldwin

calm

It's all about finding the calm in the chaos.

Donna Karen

afraid

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

love

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Teresa of Ávila

give

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Roman Payne

worrying

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Abraham Hicks

never

Never allow your feelings for someone to compromise your integrity and allow what is unacceptable to become acceptable.

soul quest

illusions

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

awaken

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

road

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.

George Harrison

if

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

hide

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Lord Buddha

listen

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Rumi

life

Only those who find life, find treasures.

Paulo Coelho

present

There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

light

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

happiness

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Lord Buddha

terrified

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Georgia O'Keefe

mirror

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

abyss

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

value

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Jean Rhys, Quartet

darker

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

faculty

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

William Faulkner

way

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

optional

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

truth

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Rumi

grateful

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

connect

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us.

Herman Melville

deaf

Nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf.

Terence Mckenna

dangerous

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin L. King, Jr

watch

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl

dream

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

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart