When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I never wish to be easily defined.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
I never wish to be easily defined.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I used to walk into a room full of people and wonder if they liked me... now I look around and wonder if I like them.