beautiful

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

comparison

Comparison is the death of joy.

Mark Twain

courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck

chance

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

desires

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamored for it.

Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove

myth

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Robert Penn Warren

man

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

pre-existing

America has a pre-existing condition, it's called moral bankruptcy.

Judit Sipos-Szabó

self

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

dismiss

Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.

Rumi

you

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Rep. John Lewis

necssity

A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

Toni Morrison

indebted

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

few

Few are those who see what their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

still

Only in still waters does things reflect themselves in an undistorted way. Only in a quiet mind is there an adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

thinking

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Carl Jung

opportunity

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

seen

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and to be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

nothing

It does happen that sometimes the old have nothing to teach the young, except by sad example.

Anonymous

what if

There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask, "What if I fall?"
Oh buy my darling,
What if you fly?"

Erin Hanson