Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Arthur O’Shaughnessy, “Ode,” 1874
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence