truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

we

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

unexamined

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

price

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

can't

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Emma Goldman

take

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Dave Matthews

idleness

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

hell

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

renewable

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale Turner

stop

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

dreams

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

death

Death is one of two things... Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything;
or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.

Socrates

shadow

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King

risk

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

Anaïs Nin

man

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

betrayal

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

James Baldwin

happy

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

The Dalai Lama

eye

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Robert Frank

listen

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to the inner love; it will transform you.

Sri Chinmoy

superior

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man: true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

life

Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.

Gretchen Bleiler

vilify

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

I will

I will not worry
I will not be angry
I will do my work honestly
I will give thanks for my many blessings
I will be kind to my neighbor and all living things

The Reiki Affirmation.

touch

At the touch of a lover, everyone become a poet.

Plato

happiness

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

fear

It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

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