coward

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

Octavia Butler

show

I wish I could show you... the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

escape

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

don't

Don't cry because it came to an end; smile because it happened.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

silence

 

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. it has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Chaim Potok

when

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

problem

 

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

weird

 

In the sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Damon Albarn

leave

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Anonymous

live

I live in my dreams...that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. 

Hermann Hesse

free

 

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Toni Morrison

don't care

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

know

 

If you don't know your own worth and value, then do not expect someone else to calculate it for you.

rusafu

judgment

 

Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgment.

A.A. Milne

you

 

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Henri Nouwen

want

 

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

desire

 

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf

worry

 

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

Mitzi Chandler

understands

 

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

art

 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding one. 

Hevelock Ellis

silence

Silence is so freaking loud.

Sara Dessen

name

 

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

wonder

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

chance

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

changed

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

reality

 

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

Leonard Cohen

don't wait

 

Don't wait for things to be possible before doing them.

Anonymous

heart

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

home

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

future

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

less difficult

 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

mediocrity

 

The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham

living

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

silence

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things. It means that you are not disturbed inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

conversation

 

In order to have a conversation with someone, you must reveal yourself.

James Baldwin

freedom

 

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

destination

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust 

fall in love

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Robert Morely 

lost

 

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

Joan Littlewood

romantic

To me, romantic means you follow your heart more than your mind.

Wong Kar-wai 

beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

death

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Irish proverb

play

 

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Richard Buckminister Fuller

truth

 

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

freedom

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin 

truth

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

i

 

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin