costume

A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.

Lucy Van Pelt

truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

we

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

unexamined

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

price

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

Plato

can't

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Emma Goldman

take

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Dave Matthews

idleness

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

hell

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

renewable

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale Turner

stop

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

dreams

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Anonymous

death

Death is one of two things... Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything;
or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.

Socrates

shadow

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King

risk

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

Anaïs Nin

man

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

betrayal

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

James Baldwin

happy

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

eye

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Robert Frank