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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Wherever you are, be there totally
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Wherever you are, be there totally
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
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 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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Wherever you are, be there totally