I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
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.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
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.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Wherever you are, be there totally
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.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
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 cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
I never wish to be easily defined.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
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.
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.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.