reality

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

Albert Einstein

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

the end

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of thing not meant for you.

Lord Buddha

you

And now that you don't have to be perfect,
you can be good.

John Steinbeck

succeed

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

careful

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Malcolm X

moment

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

loss

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

life

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

right

We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

Winston S. Churchill

counts

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

elect

A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.

George Orwell

sadness

Sadness is a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

surprising

Surprising yourself is what makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

not careful

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Malcolm X

dream

My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

possible

Trust the wait.
Embrace the uncertainty.
Enjoy the beauty of becoming.
When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Mandy Hale

give

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your hear it will be returned.

Steve Maraboli

he

He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done.

Leonardo Da Vinci

aim

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thought and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

inventors

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

touch

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Frederick Buechner

day

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the word for his coming.

Augustus Hare

tyranny

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Charles de Montesquieu

begins

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

compassion

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar... it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

somebody

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was the somebody.

Lily Tomlin

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