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 don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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?
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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.
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.
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.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I never wish to be easily defined.
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.