"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."

"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."

"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."

"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning."

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."

"I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed."

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."

"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go."

"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities." - Terry Josephson

"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish." Jean de La Fontaine

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." Mark Twain

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

"Imagination is everthing. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers."

-Peter Matthiessen

"It doesn't matter what anybody else is doing with their vibration, it only matters what you are doing. You cannot desire something—and notice that it isn't coming—without offering two contradictory vibrations that won't let it come."

"Resistance is about believing that you are vulnerable or susceptible to something not wanted and holding a stance of protection, which only holds you in a place of not letting in the Well-being that would be there otherwise. There is nothing big enough to protect you from unwanted things -- and there are no unwanted things big enough to get into your experience."

"All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for."

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” - D.H. Lawrence

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger." - Kahlil Gibran

"To love someone means to see him/her as God intended him/her." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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'For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.' - Leonardo da Vinci

“The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -- quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.”

“It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.”

“The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”

“Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”

“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”

“How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.”

“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”

"So please, cultivate your beginner's mind. Be willing to not be an expert. Be willing to not know. Not knowing is nearest. Not knowing is most intimate. " - Zenkei Blanche Hartman