tolerates

No artist tolerates reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

imagine

Imagine if all humanity lived in the spirit of love and respect. This is peace on earth. This is heaven.

A.D. Williams

nothing

We remember nothing and forget everything because nothing is better than anything.

Serge Gainsbourg

free

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach

cure

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

more real

"Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see."

Arthur Golden

begin

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.

Francis Bacon

cynic

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

what

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

tried

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

fulfillment

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

old

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

dreams

Men are the dreams of shadows.

Pindar

difference

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Mark Twain

meaning

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

understand

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus

past

The past is never where you think you left it.

Katherine Anne Porter

plant

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

memories

Memories warm you up from the inside.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

imagination

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Lewis Carroll

risk

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Herb Brooks

walk

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thích Nhár Hanh

mainspring

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Charles Baudelaire

future

The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

accepts

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King, Jr

you

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide to not be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

things

The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.

Anonymous

fall

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

moment

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

youth

Youth has no age.

Pablo Picasso

present

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

wonder

It is important always to have a sense of wonder.

Julia Cameron

illusions

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

talk

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

light

Light is the shadow of God.

Plato

strength

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Rumi

past

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

John Banville, The Sea

sense

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

David Lynch

truest

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

do not

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein

same time

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

David Bowie

message

If you hear the birds singing, does it have to have a message?

Robert Wilson

mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

sometimes

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Ryan Gosling

wonder

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

Bill Watterson

perceptions

A test of perceptions: of what to focus on, of what to believe in, in spite of appearances.

Mike Dooley

unexamined

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

found

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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