friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

day

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

control

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

life

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

stupidity

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

seeker

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

dream

Today reminds me that I should not give up on good things in life. If one dream seems to die it does not mean that it won't rise again.

Hal Rogers

integrity

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

C.S. Lewis

see

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

imagination

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

wander

All those who wander are not lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

battles

The sage battles his/her own ego.
The fool battles everyone else's.

Sufi Proverb

lies

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

hope

Hope costs nothing.

Colette

dreams

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

interpretation

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Lawrence Durrell

dance

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

W.H. Auden

react

Each time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Deepak Chopra

vision

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

C.G. Jung

time

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

Shannon L. Aider

cannot

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us.

Herman Melville

yourself

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

born

We are born somewhere between light and darkness and the belief in the forces of light let us find the way to make wonders come true.

Vanessa Vox

everything

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

relax

Relax and dream up a good life.

Jim Carey

future

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

Alvin Toffler

still

For the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

make

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

we

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Thomas Berry

boldness

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

who

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look at your soul?

Mary Oliver

wings

 If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Coco Chanel

superpower

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Banksy

nothing

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

close

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Hafiz

find

Find a voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

losing

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

sense

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

David Lynch

elimination

The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then, watch your health and life, improve.

Charles F. Glassman

memories

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

religion

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

endure

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

Neil Gaiman

islands

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

adversity

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

illusion

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion.

Rumi

other

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

forever

Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second

Lewis Carroll

needed

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

don't

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same day.

Janis Joplin