how

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Plato

intrepretation

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

truth

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

hope

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Joseph Addison

chance

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

dwell

Dwell in thought upon the grandest, and the grandest you shall see. Fix your mind upon the highest, and the highest you shall be.

Anonymous

once

What is now proved was once imagined.

Robert Blake

convictions

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

William F. Scholavino

goes on

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

Robert Frost

light

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

seeds

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

dancer

But my soul is a passionate dancer, it bounces around for an inner dance music, only I can hear and not the others.

Bettina von Amin

soul

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

poetry

Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

lucid

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together.

Michel Leiris

dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if Hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream

care

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or for ill.

Lord Buddha

happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

limited

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Anonymous