practice

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

Philip Glass

tree

Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.

Herman Hesse

living

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

tragedies

 

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

soul

 

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous

extreme

Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

Baruch Spinoza

fooled

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

different

If you want the present to be different from the past study the past.

Baruch Spinoza

burn

Some people will burn the bridge, then ask why you don't visit.

Anonymous

she

 

She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it.

E.M. Forster

boomerang

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel

travel

 

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

heaven

 

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to ou her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. 

Dante Alighieri

ordinary

 

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

heart

The heart of mean is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depts it has its pearls too.

Vincent Van Gogh

life

Life has a way of making a joke of the plans that we devise for ourselves. Only in the rear-view mirror can we see how choices and chances pave a road we can never have imagined.

Stephanie A. Shields

gratitude

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

photography

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

cannot

You cannot hide and seek your fate; you cannot seek and hide your karma.

Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth

and in me

know

 

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Adam Smith

purpose

 

Our purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

heart

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi

neglect

If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.

Radindranath Tagore

it goes on

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. - It goes on.

Robert Frost

kind

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

ignorance

 

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

moon

 

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

Rumi

mindfulness

Mindfulness arises when you allow your attention to fall effortlessly on the breathing point like an autumn leaf falling on a lake of still water.

Amit Ray

should not

If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.

Rabindranath Tagore

seasons

We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.

Katherine May

train

 

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

finish

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow isa new day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

future

The eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

Terry Tempest Williams

music

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar

quieter

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Rumi

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

behind

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern... the whole world is a work of art... there is no Shakespeare... no Beethoven... no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Virginia Woolf

enough

I have nature, art and poetry and if that's not enough, what is enough.

Vincent Van Gogh

dreams

I begin to wonder if those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality, of a gigantic collective dream of which the entire city may be the projection.

Chris Marker

falling

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Margaret Atwood

man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Erich Fromm

creative instinct

The creative instinct is...an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual...-an energy which no single life can consume.

Pearl S. Buck

forget

 

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

attention

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

people

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

present

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

strength

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

Mahatma Gandhi