wisest

I am the wisest man alive, for one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

friend

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

dinosaur

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

above

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Mollie Marti

everything

Everything that is, casts a shadow.

Neil Gaiman

abyss

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are unable to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

occhiolism

Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective in the grandness of the vast scope of the Universe.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

criticize

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

imitates

Paradoxically though it may seem it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

incredible

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

do not learn

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

landscape

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul, we search for its outline all our lives.

Josephine Hart

look

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

outside

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time.

Milan Kundra

choose

To live is to choose. But to choose well you must know ho you are and what you stand for, whre you want to go and why you want to get there.

Kofi Annan

imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

wisdom

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams.

Hugh Walpole

we

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Erich Maria Remarque