"Anyone can be an artist!" -- Joseph Beuys

"We are what we think. Everything we are arises from our thoughts. With our thinking we create the world. "--Buddha

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." --George Carlin

"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." - - George Carlin

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." -- Leo Tolstoy

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.." --Og Mandino

“Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get out there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.” - Maya Angelou

"Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above worlds tearing your heart into pieces and giving up your soul" -- Rumi

"You have to be curious enough to go upstream and find the source. When you find the source, the truth is revealed. And then you can invite others to do the same. It’s what we’ve come here to do.” -- Bill Kurtis

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” -- Chinese Proverb

“A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. He who uses his hands, and his mind, and his heart is an artist.” -- St. Francis

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” -- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Although I am a loner in my daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated." - Albert Einstein

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." -- John Milton

"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance" -- Dalai Lama

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are." -- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." - - Edith Sitwell

"Why force my body to change its place, when my soul travels so lightly and so swiftly? And what is the good of carrying out a project, when the project itself gives me pleasure enough?" -- Baudelaire

"The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired." -- Paul Eluard

"Peace is when I accept life." -- D. H. Lawrence

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake...It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look...To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -- Thoreau

"If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time." -- Proust

"If the world were clear, art would not exist." -- Albert Camus

"It is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing." -- Albert Camus

"Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival." --Osho

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -- Andre Gide

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be." -- C.S. Lewis

"It is not our possessions, nor our actions that determine who we are. It is our decisions that make us. And if in this reality, with the divine power of life we have been given which is not defined, the destiny of our life is marked by its transience." -- Don Isidro

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -- Jimmy Dean

"The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” -- William Somerset Maugham

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.” -- James Joyce

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” -- Jamie Paolinetti

"There are images I need to complete my own reality." -- Jim Morrisson

“True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.” -- Julia Roberts

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” - Epictetus

“In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life’s purpose.” -- Epictetus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” -- Epictetus

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again..." --Mahatma Gandhi

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." -- Emmet Fox

"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world." -- Socrates

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. " -- W. Clement Stone

"I don't know! I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!" -- Bart Simpson

"There is no truth. There is only perception." -- Gustave Flaubert

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." -- Andre Gide

"For eternally and always, there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end." --E. Schrodinger

"Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine." --Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -- Mother Teresa

"Reality is what you can get away with." -- Robert Anton Wilson

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- Abraham Lincoln

"It is necessary to continually attempt the impossible." -- Hermann Hesse

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" -- George Carlin

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -- Mae West

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." -- Will Rogers

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."--George Orwell

"What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them." -- Voltaire

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." -- Pablo Picasso

"We are here to learn to love one another. I do not know what the others are here for." -- W. H. Auden

"We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music. " --Henry Miller

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever does." --Margaret Mead

"What other people think of me is none of my business" -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." -- Willy Wonka

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together." --Anais Nin

"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions." -- Thomas H. Huxley

"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." -- Anais Nin

"I intend to live forever; so far, so good." -- Steven Wright

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." -- Epictetus

"No man is free who is not master of himself." --Epictetus

"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous." -- Voltaire

"Say not, 'I have found the truth', but rather,'I have found a truth'" -- Kahlil Gibran

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

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. " -- Mae West
"To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. "- E. Merrill Root

“What is accepted by the majority of people – does NOT mean it is Real ” -- The Buddha

"One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star." -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin

"Have tremendous expectations and believe in them" --- Unknown

"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the changes for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." -- John F. Kennedy

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." -- Albert Einstein

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -- Buckminster Fuller

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." -- Edwin Land

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg

"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." --
La Rochefoucauld

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -- Marcel Proust

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death" -- James F. Bymes

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." -- Alice Walker

"You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment."
–- Les Brown

"Become the change you want to see in the world." -- Gandhi

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay

"True illuminates have no dreams. Dreams are for those who are asleep. True illuminates live in the higher worlds, out of the physical body, in a state of intensified wakefulness without ever dreaming." -- VM Samael Aun Weor

"I am allergic to dogma. I thrive on questions, and don't trust any idea that tempts me to believe in it absolutely. There are very few perceptions or theories about which I am totally certain". -- Rob Brezsny

"Ideas are most to be feared when they become actions."
-- Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah)

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." --Stephen R. Covey

"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing." --Jim Rohn