Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
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.
I never wish to be easily defined.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
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.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Wherever you are, be there totally
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
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.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
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.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
Wherever you are, be there totally