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.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
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.
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?
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
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.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Wherever you are, be there totally
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Wherever you are, be there totally
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
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.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I never wish to be easily defined.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.