sleeping

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

egocentric

One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Evelyn Waugh

trail

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.

Stoddard King, Jr.

ruffled

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Brontë

say

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Lord Buddha

peace

Happy Thanksgiving
may peace prevail on earth

life

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

destiny

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

wings

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

freedom

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

diet

Your diet is not only what you eat. It's what you watch, what you listen to, and what you read, the people you hang around... be mindful of the things you put into your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.

Anonymous

poetry

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

important

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Patrick Lindsay

tears

Je versai plus de larmes que Dieu n'en a pu jamais demander.
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

Arthur Rimbaud

kindness

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

greatest

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Lord Buddha

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

stupid

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

past

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Alan Moore

dangerous

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

god

I found god in myself & I loved her, I loved her fiercely.

Ntozake Shange

grieve

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

Rumi

evil

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

Leonardo De Vinci

imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

compare

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

yourself

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Coco Chanel

searching

Maybe you are searching in the branches,
For what only appears in the roots.

Rumi

compassion

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

Dalai Lama

add

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

Dalai Lama

wait

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J.R.R. Tolkien

destiny

Destiny is not a matter of change; it is a matter of choice. it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

choose

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Garth Nix

jump

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Ray Bradbury

demand

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

expectation

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

William Shakespeare

all

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

only

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Gandhi

beware

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

autumn

And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and Autumn was awakened.

Raquel Franco

actions

Actions are the seed of fate
deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman

close

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experience.

Søren Kierkegaard

anger

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Lord Buddha

dreams

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

obstacles

Obstacles don't block the path.
They are the path

Zen Proverb

time

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Jerome K. Jerome

live

Everyone has their dreams. I don't write my dreams down; they just live inside me.

Gracie Gold

paper

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Gilda Radner

judge

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson