reality

I wasn't meant for reality, but life came and found me.

Fernando Pessoa

lines

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

John Mayer

power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Gloria Steinem

nature

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

patience

Patience is not a virtue. It is an accomplishment.

Armineh Hovanesian

growth

If we don't change we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Gail Sheehy

emancipate

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind

Bob Marley

beauty

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

shadows

I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them to be real.

Oscar Wilde

i

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

illusion

The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.

Lionel Suggs

become

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

RuPaul

people

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

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