past

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

John Banville, The Sea

sense

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

David Lynch

truest

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

do not

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein

same time

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

David Bowie

message

If you hear the birds singing, does it have to have a message?

Robert Wilson

mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

sometimes

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Ryan Gosling

wonder

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

Bill Watterson

perceptions

A test of perceptions: of what to focus on, of what to believe in, in spite of appearances.

Mike Dooley

unexamined

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

found

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

staying

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important.

George Orwell, 1984

aware

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

The Dalai Lama

must

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing things that you do not like to do. You must find things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Martin

winter

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape--the loneliness of it--the dead feeling of winter. Something awaits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

job

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Woody Allen

twice

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Zadie Smith

future

The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

memories

Take care of your memories for you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan