When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
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.
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.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have, you'll never have enough.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
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.