empathy

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering.
Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Audrey Hepburn

life

Remember, life is not coming at you, it's coming FROM you.
Your thoughts, and actions are generating the vibration that attracts the circumstances of your life.

D.M. Row

meet

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Carl Jung

aim

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

addiction

We have, as it seems to me, a very curious sense of reality-- or, rather, perhaps, I should say, a striking addiction to irreality.

James Baldwin

regrets

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

meet

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Carl Jung

risk

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Reuben Blades

life

Remember, life is not coming at you, it's coming FROM you.
Your thoughts, and actions are generating the vibration that attracts the circumstances of your life.

D.M. Row

listen

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

dreams

Hold fast to dreams for it dreams die
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

true

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

answers

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

time

Time does not pass, it continues.

Marty Rubin

compassion

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The Dalai Lama

changed

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Mark Twain

sometimes

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Paul Wellstone

our

Our life dreams the Utopia.
Our death achieves the ideal.

Victor Hugo

looks

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

sleep

Sleep is the best meditation.

The Dalai Lama

clearly

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

impossibilities

In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

after

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

mystery

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

react

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Simone Weil

share

Share your smile with the word. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

invested

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

break

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Paulo Coelho

sides

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

Elie Wiesel

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