diary

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

messy

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black, Red Glove

truth

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

tell

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

Stephanie Klein, Straight Up

imagine

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Anatole France

cast

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Robert Frost

future

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our hands.

Thomas Dewey

purpose

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

act

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

rain

Rain may stop you from going out, but it doesn't stop you from looking inwards.

Anthony T. Hincks

wonder

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him.

Bill Watterson

raise

Sink not to my depths, but instead raise to surface, and be the shining light for all to see.

Anthony T. Hincks

nothing

Nothing has the power to hold you in the state of pain except your own self.

Human Zuellah Ahmed

hands

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

respect

Respect flows from eyes.

Rupal Asodaria

back

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

reflect

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man had many -- not of your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

changes

All places are the same unless your mind changes. There's no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit.

Stephen King, Roadwork

religion

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

yesterday

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Cherokee proverb

picture

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Ernest Haas

circumstance

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

eyelashes

If eyes are window to our soul lashes are the curtains we close for privacy.

Nicole Gadiel

reality

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

Leonard Cohen

fool

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Anatole France

not

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

journeys

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

J.A. Konrath

silence

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

pay

There is no escape -- we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert, Dune

sources

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

truth

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

unless

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

Steve Maraboli

truth

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

shaped

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Lord Buddha

substance

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

character

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

existence

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

made for

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

young

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

wisest

I am the wisest man alive, for one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

friend

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

dinosaur

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

above

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Mollie Marti

everything

Everything that is, casts a shadow.

Neil Gaiman

abyss

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are unable to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

occhiolism

Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective in the grandness of the vast scope of the Universe.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

criticize

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan