seasons

We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.

Katherine May

train

 

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

finish

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow isa new day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

future

The eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

Terry Tempest Williams

music

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar

quieter

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Rumi

happiness

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

behind

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern... the whole world is a work of art... there is no Shakespeare... no Beethoven... no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Virginia Woolf

enough

I have nature, art and poetry and if that's not enough, what is enough.

Vincent Van Gogh

dreams

I begin to wonder if those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality, of a gigantic collective dream of which the entire city may be the projection.

Chris Marker

falling

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Margaret Atwood

man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Erich Fromm

creative instinct

The creative instinct is...an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual...-an energy which no single life can consume.

Pearl S. Buck

forget

 

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

attention

Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life.

Nadia Boulanger

people

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

effort

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

present

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

enlightened

 

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung