And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

Man Ray

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goran Persson

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

Hafez

 

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

Jack Kerouac

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise. . .

Paramahansa Yogananda

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

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.

Hermann Hesse

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

G. I. Gurdjieff

He who controls the past controls the future.

Laozi

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

James Joyce

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Paul Brunton

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

Walt Whitman

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Meher Baba

Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.

Paul Brunton

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Paulo Coelho

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Jack Kerouac

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Paul Brunton

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
Ban Ki-moon

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Man Ray

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

Paul Brunton

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

James Joyce

Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Jane Goodall

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Your future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

William C. Bryant

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Townes Van Zandt

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

Hermann Hesse

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

G.I.Gurdjieff

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

Frida Kahlo

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Paul Brunton

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Herb Caen

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Frida Kahlo

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

Walt Whitman

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

G.I.Gurdjieff

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Jane Goodall

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

What we think, we become.

Buddha

I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Allen Ginsberg

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

Meher Baba

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Paul Cezanne

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare