The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
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 am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
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.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
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.
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 only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
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.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
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 miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Wherever you are, be there totally
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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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.
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.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.