risk

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anaïs Nin

illusion

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

painting

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey

refuge

Nowhere can man find a more peaceful or more serene refuge than in his soul.

Marcus Aurelius

wish

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Cinderella

everybody

Everybody's a dream.

John Lithgow

God

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

majority

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.

Mark Twain

comprehend

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

Boy Dylan

forever

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

Lewis Carroll

now

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

not

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

suffering

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.

Dalai Lama

art

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

power

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Salman Rushdie

different

I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.

Lewis Carroll

remember

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a light.

Austin O'Malley

wisdom

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

midway

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus

energy

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

if

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

African Proverb

faith

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

substance

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

light

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

looks

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler yeats

above all

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

life

What is life? a madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

present

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

life

Life can only happen backwards but must be lived forward.

Søren Kierkegaard

parents

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Spike Lee

pitiful

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Khalil Gibran

answers

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce

demagogue

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H.L. Mencken

better

It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left.

Jim Carrey

dwell

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

no person

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman

time machines

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

truth

When  money speaks, the truth is silent.

Russian proverb

trust

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

unsettling

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Brett Butler

silence

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

German proverb

myth

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.

Joseph Campbell

illustrations

Dreams are ... illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

vision

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

starts

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Larry Niven

goals

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

solved

Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream.

David Schwartz

microscope

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Eric Fromm