Delusion And Truth

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart. -Ryokan

A Test

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. -Lauren Bacall

Lives And Music

Some people have lives; some people have music. -John Green

Like Rain

Love is like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. -Deb Caletti

The True Soldier

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. -G.K. Chesterton

Dance

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. -Martha Graham

More Fun

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" -A.A. Milne

Trust And Love

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. -Doris Lessing

Greatly

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy

Right To Grow

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker

Enough Time

But there never seems to be enough time, to do the things you want to do, once you find them. -Jim Croce

Footprints

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. -Flavia Weedn

Peanut Butter

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -Charles M. Schulz

A Boat

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for. -Katie Couric

Intimacy

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. -Alain de Botton

A Year From Now

A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

Communal

We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. -Michael Ondaatje

In Your Mind

You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day. -Jean Kwok

Don't Judge

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. -Toba Beta

The Source of Passion

Love is...The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow. Love is the source of passion. -Susan Polis Schutz

To Comfort and Disturb

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -Banksy

Fountain of Youth

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of others. -Sophia Loren

Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Other Than Oneself

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch

Your Future

The best way to predict your future is to create it. -Peter F. Drucker

The Silent One

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. -Karen Marie Moning

Then You Read

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. -James Baldwin

Happy Cinco de Mayo

I’m not above using obscure Mexican battles to justify my drinking. -unknown

Best Wishes

Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens. -Tony DeLiso

Change

All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. -Octavia E. Butler

The Truth

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. -Lao Tzu