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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
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?
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
I never wish to be easily defined.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
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 can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
I never wish to be easily defined.
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.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
I never wish to be easily defined.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
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.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.