cosmos

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Wislawa Szymborska

life

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

i'm

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

consumes

What consumes your mind consumes your life.

Marci Jeffrey

magic

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

Amy Leigh Mercree

we

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

maybe

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

know

No time to be deceived. Oh brothers, you should know and not believe.

Bob Marley

art

Art is a way of survival.

yoko ono

counts

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

sky

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust

joy

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

compassion

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between experience and wisdom.

Phyllis Theroux

labyrinth

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

middle

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight was lost.

Dante Alighieri

hope

Art is the highest form of hope.

Gerhard Richter

glance

Glance into the world just as though time was gone; and everything will become straight to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

i

I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.

Louise Hay

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