sands

‘The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.’

- Niccolo Machiavelli

work

‘Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching’

- Aurora Greenway

ways

‘Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.’

- Lao Tzu

moons

‘I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it’

- Albert Einstein

raised

‘As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world’

- Buddha

found

‘The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said’

- C.S. Lewis

desire

‘Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.’

- Epictetus

need

‘When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about.’

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

steps

‘Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.’

- Ayn Rand

mist

‘To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.’

- Rachel Carson