leaving

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

A. Lynn

you

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Bob Marley

love

 

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Leo Tolstoy

obvious

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

tale

But all this world is like a tale we hear -
Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Ferdowski

breathing

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Criss Jami

notice

People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

shadow

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

same

The path up and down are one and the same.

Heraclitus

new

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

Marianne Williamson

met

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

Jeanette Winterson

memories

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

B.J. Neblett

let go

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

fear

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Thomas Aquinas

risk

Risk anything! care no more for the opinions of others... Do the hardest thing on earth for youself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

trade

Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

Tony Robbins

way

The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.

Sydney J. Harris

emotional

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jeanette Winterson

soul

Your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

somewhere

Anywhere seems nowhere, yet somewhere seems everywhere.

Anonymous

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