your

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Thich Nhat Hanh

joys

Uncertainly and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

nothing

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

real

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

Arthur Golden

abyss

What can we gain from sailing to the moon if we are unable to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves.

Thomas Merton

fantasy

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

Lloyd Alexander

lesson

The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle.

Dhiraj Raj

fear

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Yoda

still

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

Lao Tzu

warrior

A warrior sees the universe as an endless mystery and the acts of men as endless folly.

Don Juan

smiling

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Santosh Kalwar

use

Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth and your heart for love.

Rumi

je_i

je pense, donc je suis
i think, therefore i am

René Descartes

depends

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

Jonathan Safran Foer

instinct

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France

dream

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

liberation

Liberation has nothing to do with the body. Body is neither in bondage nor does it get liberated. It is the embodied soul which is in bondage and which gets liberated.

Baba Hari Dass

unhappiness

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

behind

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Honore de Balzac

rising

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

fixes

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

problem

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

common

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

risk

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Herb Brooks

look

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

Andrei Linde

reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

find

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

life

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Umberto Eco

happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. it comes from your own actions.

H.H. Dalai Lama

nothing

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

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