staying

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important.

George Orwell, 1984

aware

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

The Dalai Lama

must

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing things that you do not like to do. You must find things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Martin

winter

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape--the loneliness of it--the dead feeling of winter. Something awaits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

job

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Woody Allen

twice

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Zadie Smith

future

The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

memories

Take care of your memories for you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

another

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

present

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Thích Nhát Hanh

shadow

Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its work in places where there are already great beauties.

Mehmet Murat

different

I'm not crazy. My reality is just different from yours.

Cheshire Cat

truth

The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

David Bowie

dream

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

Richelle Mead

melancholy

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Virginia Woolf

question

Life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

want

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

dreams

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

art

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

images

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves.

Andy Warhol

drifted

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Haruki Murakami

future

For I dip into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

see

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but through eyes blurred by the mind.

Anonymous

heaven

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

J. Renard

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

grateful

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

job

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Thomas Merton

mortal

I'm not a prophet or a stone age man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

David Bowie

bp

Bon anniversaire, BP!!

know

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Meister Eckhart

operate

One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.

Charle M. Blow

do

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

find

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.

Zig Ziglar

life

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

change

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

time

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Meister Eckhart

new

New Year - a new chapter, a new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

Alex Morritt

decision

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Paulo Coelho

day

happy new year... all the best in 2016


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

i am

I am nourished by the past, I am questioning the present, and I am stepping into the future.

Ellsworth Kelly

found

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

time

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of your life.

Anonymous

imagine

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

John Green, Paper Towns

staying

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important.

George Orwell, 1984

your mind

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Martin

happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

do not

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

painful

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

Mandy Hale

where

Ask not where the past has been, but where is the future headed?

Feisal Mosieh

future

It is never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

Andrei Linde