Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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 cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.