changing

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

lonely

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

sorrows

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

no one

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Kahlil Gibran

confession

 

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

time

Time is the thief of memories.

Stephen King

captive

We're captive on the carousel of time/ We can't return, we can only look behind, from where we came / And go round and round and round, in the circle game.

Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game

skyward

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

you

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

Eckhart Tolle

sometimes

 

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Mandy Hale

you

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Max Ehrmann

moment

There is only one moment in time when it is essential to awaken, that moment is now.

Lord Buddha

moon

 

The Sun watches what we do, But the moon knows all of our secrets.

J.M. Wonderland

sing

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Rumi

light

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

love

 

To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Anne Sexton

soul

The soul will always do what it needs to do.

Tracey Emin

human

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart -- that's what life is all about, that's its task.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ponder

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.

Seneca

if

If you can fall in love again and again... If you can forgive as well as forget, if you keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical... you've got it half licked.

Henry Miller 

future

We are living through a revolt against the future. The future will prevail.

Anand Giridharadas

certain

 

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

listen

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

black

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

James Baldwin

plan

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

dream

 

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

Toni Morrison

if

If you can fall in love again and again... If you can forgive as well as forge, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical... you've got it half licked.

Henry Miller

afraid

 

Not to be afraid when you are all alone is the only true way of being not afraid. Where does your courage come in, when you cannot find it in your own self but always have to grasp god morally?

Olga Jacoby

art

 

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

he

If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.

Albert Camus

comes round

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

idiots

One idiot is one idiot. / Two idiots are two idiots. / Ten thousand idiots are a political party

Franz Kafka

escape

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

you

 

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Rumi

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth / and in me

nature

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

privilege

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

 

ignore

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Rumi

attached

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

art

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

imagination

 

Imagination is your mind's playground.

Anonymous

dream

 

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

awaken

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

thinking

Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

cling

 

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time time making it.

Anonymous

end

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

S.K. Harrell

will be

Que sera, sera / Whatever will be, will be / The future's not our to see.

 

new

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

Norman Rockwell

intense

 

A split second and an eternity become interchangeable when you experience intense emotions.

Jonathan Coe

dissect

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

 Edvard Munch