dangerous

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Primo Levi

silence

I think 90 times and find nothing, I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Albert Einstein

important

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Etty Hillesum

dream

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

common

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

difference

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Jay McInernay

attention

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Mary Oliver

every

Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable.

Etty Hillesum

life

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Kahill Gibran

important

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Etty Hillsum

each

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Etty Hillesum

dwell

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcu Aurelius

9/11

always remember
may peace prevail on earth
and in me
  
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we

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

Gautama Buddha

destined

Some things are destined to be - it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

J.R. Ward

humor

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Lisa Kieypas

coincidences

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

Emery Allen

love

Love your fate which is in fact your life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

want

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Mark Twain

advice

Advice From A Tree

Stand Tall and Proud
Go Out On A Limb
Remember Your Roots
Drink Plenty of Water
Be Content with Your Natural Beauty
Enjoy the View

need

We need happiness.
And happiness, hope and love.

Vincent Van Gogh

life

Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time.

Debasish Mridha

stage

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Toni Morrison

creator

Death is an illusion, life is a dream and you are the creator of your own imagination.

LJ Vanier

life

Life is a painted dream of consciousness on a canvas called the body.

Debasish Mridha

decision

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

achieve

We achieve our dreams only when we have a successful mindset.

Faith P. Blake

leader

A leader is a person with a clear vision for the future who wants to enlist others to help him turn a dream into reality.

Ace McCloud

gratitude

You need to start feeling gratitude as you set your intentions. Intentions are the starting point for fulfilling your dreams.

Brenda Nathan

loss

The loss of a life is not nearly as devastating as the loss of what could have been, of the dreams left unfulfilled and lingering passions undiscovered.

Seth David Chernoff

tomorrow

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth.

Michael Jackson

dream

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Carl Jung

boundaries...

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins.

Edgar Allan Poe

eyelash

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Jay McInerney

breathe

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction of everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Bruce Lee

dream

Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.

Roy T. Bennett

understand

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream.

Gustave Flaubert

end

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Rachel Cohn

surface

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

P.C. Cast

i

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

H.P. Lovecraft

futures

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past; dead branches.

Italo Calvino

open

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Anonymous

things

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley

courage

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

dream

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

Toni Morrison

flowers

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

necessary

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

own

My dreams were all own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelly

windows

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Henry Bromel