know

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

nothing

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything files and goes away.

Frieda Kahlo

compassion

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

control

When you can't control what's happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what's happening. That's where your power is.

Anonymous

night

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent van Gogh

attend

You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.

Anonymous

capable

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Lysander Spooner

words

When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides, Orestes

dream

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

Edgar Allan Poe

hold

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

fooled

There are two way to be fooled. One is believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

enough

The word has enough for everyone's need. But not enough for everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

nothing

Today is april fool's day.
believe nothing and trust no one...
just like any other day.

anonymous

sad

People aren't born sad; we make them that way.

Nikita Gill

feelings

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are under we've opened their cage.

Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

chameleons

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke

hide

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes -- never!

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

destroyed

If it can be destroyed the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Carol Sagan

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