people

I don't know any perfect people - only really, really flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

decisions

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

Mingyur Rinpoch

if you want

If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.

Rumi

distinction

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling i get from life and way I translate that feeling into painting.

Henri Matisse

time

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Umberto Eco,  Foucault's Pendulum

eyes

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Tony Arata

energy

Everything is energy. In this field of energy, like attracts like. What you think, you create.

Neale Donald Walsch

searching

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Rumi

live

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

nows

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

riches

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

child

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Issac Newton

until

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

justice

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

function

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Sir Thomas Beecham

not

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

music

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

kind

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

no fear

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no Fear.

Rumi

creativity

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

Albert Einstein