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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
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.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
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.
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.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
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.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I never wish to be easily defined.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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.