words

 

...and the time has come to say the words we want to hear.

David Lynch

dancing

 

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

everyone

 

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.

Paulo Coelho

life

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

listen

 

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

price

 

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

contribute

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

divine

 

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman

peace

 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

escape

 

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

journey

 

When setting out on a journey never seek advice from those who have never left home.

Rumi

trusted

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George McDonald

function

The real function of art is to change mental patterns...making new thought possible.

Jean Dubuffet

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

shock

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Renault

life

 

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Hypatia

actions

Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S. Truman

love

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

Anne Sexton

once

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

destiny

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de la Fontaine