Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
I never wish to be easily defined.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Wherever you are, be there totally
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Wherever you are, be there totally
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
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.