need

I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettinesses.

Søren Kierkegaard

selfishness

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish, it is asking others to live their lives as you wish.

Oscar Wilde

will

Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison

see

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

don't

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good,

Anonymous

who

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll,  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

tolerant

Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance.

Elder Wisdom

think

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Martha Graham

time

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Leo F. Buscaglia

function

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

smiling

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

thief

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

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