changed

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

i'm

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

Haruki Murakami,  Dance Dance Dance

persuade

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal

doubt

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

educated

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

Aristotle

once

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Coco Chanel

doubters

Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.

Aniekee Tochukwu

called

We have been called from darkness into the light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

lost

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.

Joan Didion

created

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.

Anaïs Nin

story

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Zafon

matter

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let fo of things not meant for you.

Lord Buddha

belittle

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

angry

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

once

Once you feel are avoided by someone, never disturb them again.

Anonymous

provides

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

dissolve

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

Virginia Woolf

surrender

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

J.G. Ballard

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