failings

 

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective.

Stephen Fry

art

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

trees

Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau 

dreams

 

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Salvador Dali

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth

worry

Worry gives a small thing a great shadow.

Swedish proverb

every

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Thomas Merton

shadow

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

most

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Butler Leacok

touch

Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Never touch your idols: the gilding may stick to your fingers.

Gustave Flauber

dreams

 

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our hearts.

Terri Guillemets

sanity

For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means a lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

change

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

Paulo Coelho

forest

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Gunter Grass

grief

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

silence

Silence is so freaking loud.

Sara Dessen, Just Listen 

room

 

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver

village idiots

We used to have village idiots but with the internet, the fuckers have gone global.

rusafu

man

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa 

heart

Come forth, and bring with you a heart   That watches and receives.

William Wordsworth

listen

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

 Jack Kerouac

unchanged

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

lie

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

walk

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone.

Shah Rukh Khan

broken

Materialistic possessions only cover up what's broken.

Michael Coegoveanu

you

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Frank Lane

dreaming

 

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa

important

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Laurette Taylor

superior

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

Ernest Hemingway

afford

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Akira Kurosawa

death

Death is the veil which those who live life call life: they sleep and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelly

time

 

Time doesn't transform us, it just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

never

 

Never make someone a priority, when all you are for them is an option.

Maya Angelou

forgotten

 

People today have forgotten they're really just part of nature.

Akira Kurosawa

question

 

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Shane Claiborne

privilege

 

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

listening

Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection.

Ursula K. Le Guin

forever

 

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

balance

 

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Carlos Castaneda

beauty

 

Beauty is in the mind, not in the eye.

Agnes Martin

attain

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Lao Tzu 

rest

 

Rest when you need to. Even the ocean lulls and quiets when the tide is running low.

Alison Malee

go

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

death

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami

empathy

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.

George Elliot

important

 

In life, it's important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.

Anonymous

awake

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

Hafiz

surrender

 

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

Toni Morrison

see

 

If we could clearly see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change.

attributed to Lord Buddha