"Freedom is what we do with what's been done to us." -Jean Paul Sartre

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." -Marie Curie

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. My story is not as pleasant one; it is near sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves." - "Demian" by Hermann Hesse

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden

"The Best way out is always through." -Robert Frost

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk a round the lake." -Wallace Stevens

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Nietzche

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."- Aristotle

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso

"Be like melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.” — Rumi

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” -Anais Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ― Anaïs Nin,

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

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy... was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our parents have made so many mistakes, but may we forgive them and forgive ourselves." — "The Sun and the Moon" by mewithoutYou

"When you really pay attention, everything is your teacher." ― Ezra Bayda

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.” ― Meister Eckhart

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” —- and find that there is no death." ― Eckhart Tolle

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

"The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room." ― Waking Life

". . . Sooner or later, we are bound to discover some things about ourselves that we don’t like. But once we see they’re there, we can decide what we want to do with them. . . . In a similar manner, instead of struggling to erase what are referred to as negative emotions, we can learn to use them in positive ways. We could describe the principle like this: while pounding on the piano keys may produce noise, removing them doesn’t exactly further the creation of music. The principles of Music and Living aren’t all that different. . . . So rather than working against ourselves, all we need to do in many cases is to point our weaknesses or unpleasant tendencies in a different direction than we have been." ― Benjamin Hoff

"You cannot save people. You can only love them." ― Anaïs Nin

“You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.” ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.” ― Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

"We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean 'waves,' the universe 'peoples.' Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated 'egos' inside bags of skin." ― Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.” ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao Of Pooh

“To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.” ― Carlos Castaneda

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.” ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

"Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation."- John Howe

"The Best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." -Ferdinand Foch

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -Thomas Merton

"The world is but a canvas to our imagination." -Henry David Thoreau

"Do one thing every day that scares you." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"We must let go of the life we had planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -Carl Jung

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." -Oprah Winfrey

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." -Lily Tomlin

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too." -Anne Frank