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.
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.
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.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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 are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
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.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Wherever you are, be there totally
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.