A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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 never wish to be easily defined.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Wherever you are, be there totally
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
Wherever you are, be there totally
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 only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
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.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.