curiosity

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

education

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr

patience

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

pain

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Haruki Murakami

too old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis, Blue Dream

harmony

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

function

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King

blessed

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

roses

Some people are always grumbling because roses are thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

hope

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

my

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

if

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

destiny

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

seek

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo

I'm

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg

create

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

change

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

we

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

Carlos Castaneda

eyes

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Tarjei Vesaas

past

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

Anonymous

drop ... fall

Drop resistance and fall into the divine flow .

Conversations with Plato

iceberg

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

fantasy

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Terry Brooks

believe

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Joe Paterno

freedom

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

life

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

jump

From a little spark may jump a big flame.

Dante

vision

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

fear

The vast majority of what we call morality is simply fear of being caught.

Dennis Lehane

hoping

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

cross

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

dream

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!

Nathan Parks

past

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the truth unless you live there.

Tony Robbins

creativity

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Osho

born

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

doing

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

decision

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

love

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

John Lennon

some

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

one

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

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