original

Your original self is worth more than your imitation os someone else.

Matshona Dhiwayo

drifts

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

George Orwell

perplexity

Perhaps the greatest perplexity of aging is how to fill with gentleness the void between who we feel we are on the inside and who our culture tells us is staring back from the mirror.

Ursula LeGuin

never

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

ends

Our power ends precisely where our fear begins...

Melissa Etheridge

awaken

What I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

freedom

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

fear

Fear is a feeling, not a fact.

Pamela Teagarden

rage

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage
Rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

dreaming

I am a dream still dreaming.

N. Waheed

seeing

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo

dreaming

We tell ourselves to to stop dreaming and grow up. Sometimes the world says it for us. But we need our dreams in order to survive. It's no more an option than breathing.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

control

When you can't control what's happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what's happening. That's where your power is.

Peaceful Warrior

home

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

don't

Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

within

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

laugh

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

rekindled

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

quality

A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

William Shakespeare

purpose

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

value

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

Louise Bourgeoise

equally

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Carl Sagan

demand

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Søren Kierkegaard

see

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

yours

It is your road, and yours alone.
Others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.

Persian poem

true

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"

you

What you do so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

build

With truth you're able to grow and build upon it. Anything built on lies will eventually crumble and fall.

Varsh Sharma

time

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Sophocles

trapped

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

peace

may peace and common sense prevail on earth
and in me

circle

Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law.

Deyth Banger

value

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

Louise Bourgeoise

wherever

Wherever you are is the entry point...

Kabir

earth

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett

courage

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

move on

Move on

Hold it together, move on

Life's so short, move on

Only time will set you free

George Michael

public

The general public does not know what is happening in the world. Neither do they know that they do not know.

Noam Chomsky

beginnings

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

day

May your day be full of limitless joy and true happiness.

you

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

Maya Angelou

courage

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

life

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

Andy Warhol

thought

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

responsible

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Gifford Pinchot

creativity

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus

reality

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

Albert Einstein

shape

Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.

Toba Beta

bring

Peace in the mind, love and compassion in the heart, bring the scattered world into one reality.

Baba Hari Dass

new

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

Alex Morritt