is

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

weapon

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over the other.

William James

happiness

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

simple

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

life

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

complex

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Alan Kay

rekindled

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

thankful

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

playing

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

soul

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!! let the SOUL emerge.

Rumi

risk

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

clearly

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

flower

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Malcolm de Chazal

overcome

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

stop

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Leonard Cohen

life

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

wheel

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

task

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

unfold

Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Ray Bradbury

light

We all have a beautiful light within... We just sometimes forget it is there.

John Holland