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 best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
I never wish to be easily defined.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
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.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
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?
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
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.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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.
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.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
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.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.