time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

kind

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

concerned

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

departure

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

attention

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amy Adams

perceptions

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

world

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves by its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

grieve

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

matters

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

Henry David Thoreau

difference

The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.

Anonymous

knowing

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have have enough, you are truly rich.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

survival

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert, Dune

pretend

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

fashion

Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.

Bill Cunningham

glazing

One problem with glazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Michael Cibenko

care

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

cling

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

take sides

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

Elie Wiesel

compliment

Being considered "crazy" by those who are still victims of cultural conditioning is a compliment.

Jason Hairston

difficult

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Amelia Earhart

imagination

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Lewis Carroll

fall

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

W.B.Yeats

dreamers

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee Williams

goal

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

awake

An awake heart
is like a sky
that pours LIGHT.

Rumi

you

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

Maya Angelou

tiger

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Jorge Luis Borges

now

Now am I nimble, now do I fly, now do I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathstra

limit

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin Roosevelt

darkness

You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadow. And carefully observe the darkness that resides within you. Sometimes in a dark tunnel you have to confront your own dark side.

Haruki Murakami

actions

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's hear.

Serrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

reading

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

worrying

I've never seen worrying about anything change it, so I decided not to do it.

Willie Nelson

path

The Path up and down are One and the Same.

Heraclitus

hold on

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

James Joyce

future

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

Leonard I. Sweet

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

destroy

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

Dalai Lama

fear

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

George R.R. Martin

middle

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

every

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

ways

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

John Adams

life

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

Sue Monk Kidd

learning

A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

societies

Societies die when cruelty masquerades as common sense.

Moustafa Bayoumi

listen

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Matt Groening

exclude

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis of Assisi

live

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

few

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

William Morris

light

There are no dark times, only light we cannot see.

E. Ethelbert Miller