fantasy

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

necessary

It's necessary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing.

Charles Bukowski

chaos

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

thoughts

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

understand

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

Albert Camus

walk

It's your road, and yours alone.
others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.

Rumi

other

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

Oscar Wilde

listening

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Glenn Gould

common

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

starve

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Richard Wright

ask

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

Feisal Mosleh

I

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Albert Camus

life

The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

Seneca

simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonard da Vinci

peace

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

John Lennon

love

And God said "love your enemy," and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Khalil Gibran

heart

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Lord Buddha

imagine

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

hold on

Hold on to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce

I

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

cannot

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

perceive

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see.

Christine Upton

imagination

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

never

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis

magic

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Alice in Wonderland

waking

Things have a life of their own, "the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

cure

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

Irish provery

everything

I tell you truly, everything you now see will vanish like a dream.

Rumi

repeat

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

Andy Warhol

future

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

Leonard I. Sweet

more

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Brian Eno

called

We have all been called from darkness into the light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

believe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

tomorrow

About tomorrow who knows anything, except, it will be time again for the deepening and quieting of the spirit.

Mary Oliver

change

Change is not pleasant, but change is constant. Only when we change and grow, we'll see a world we never know.

Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker

a why

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

little

Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

rain

Raise your words not your voice
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

hope

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Samuel Smiles

remain

A man who refuses light will remain in darkness even by the side of the light.

Mehmet Murat ildan

masks

We all wear masks, and the comes comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

Andre Bethiaume

fell

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Elizabeth Taylor

cling

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

Anonymous

beware

Beware what you speak, said the Merlin very softly, for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

sides

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

know

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.

George Harrison

food

Food for the body is not enough, there must be food for the soul.

Dorothy Day

test

The true test of character is not how much one knows how to do, but how he behaves when he doesn't know what to do.

John Holt

real

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barker