circle

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Jeanette Winterson

inventing

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Lewis Carroll

alive

Don't ask yourself what the world needs: ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

man

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

impossible

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

new

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Chico Xavier

complacency

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Nick Cave

new way

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

Marianne Williamson

let it shine

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine,
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine,
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
Hide it under a bushel - NO!
I'm gonna let it shine.
Hide it under a bushel - NO!
I'm gonna let it shine,
Hide it under a bushel - NO!
I'm gonna let it shine, Let it shine,
let it shine, let it shine.

Jim Curnow. This Little Light of Mine (excerpt)

pass

This too shall pass.

Anonymous

secrets

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Nikola Tesla

either or

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

Paulo Coelho

illusion

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

most

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Aldous Huxley

to

To err is human,
to forgive is divine.

Alexander Pope

understand

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

become

In order to see the birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.

Robert Lynd

stop

Stop making the difficult the enemy of the possible.

Naomi Klein

lunatics

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

observe

When it hurts - observe. Life is trying to tell you something.

Anita Krizzan

flame

From a little spark may jump a big flame.

Dante

focus

Your focus determines your reality.

George Lucas

your

Live out your imagination, not your history.

Stephen R. Covey

true

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Neil Gaiman

be

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

fragile

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

work

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

Carlos Castaneda

decision

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

Plato

truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

battle

Life - the way it real is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

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