It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Difficulties show a person's character.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
Confine yourself to the present.
The carpenter does not come and say, “Hear me talk about the carpenter’s art”; but having undertaken to build a house, he makes it, and proves that he knows the art.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Plato has a fine saying, that he who would discourse of man should survey, as from some high watchtower, the things of earth.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Let us meet with bravery whatever may befall us. Let us never feel a shudder at the thought of being wounded or of being made a prisoner, or of poverty or persecution.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
While you live - while you can - be a good man.
Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
For love of bustle is not industry it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind.
The things you run from are inside you.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.
May the Force be with you.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Let us enjoy our friends avidly, for how long this blessing will fall to our lot is uncertain.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature.
I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.
If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
Do not harm the environment. Do not harm the water and the flora. Earth is our mother, and we are her children.
Curb your desire - don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend’s accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue.
Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Let’s focus on what people with autism can do, rather than what they can’t.
Is a world without pain possible? Then don't ask the impossible.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.
Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is already within yourself, your way of thinking.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.
It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Anger is a brief madness.
Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control. And some things are not.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
Anyone who aspires to make observations about mankind should look upon the human scene as from some lofty height.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Define for me now what the “indifferents” are. Whatever things we cannot control. Tell me the upshot. They are nothing to me.
The other side shall be heard as well.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Things stand outside of us, themselves by themselves, neither knowing anything of themselves nor expressing any judgment.
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time..
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good?
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have.
Hugs are like boomerangs – you get them back right away.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them.
Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course.
We should always be asking ourselves - is this something that is, or is not, in my control?
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Through discipline comes freedom.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
I will have to remember "I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators".
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment.
Sometimes even the wisest of men and machines can be in error.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
I have the power!
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Falling is one of the ways of moving.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
Only the educated are free.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
Only the educated are free.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
This is the mark of perfection of character—to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Where there's life there's hope.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
What we really need is to realize how little we really need.
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimating the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The things you run from are inside you.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Well done is better than well said.
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Slow down, you’re doing fine.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Slow down, you’re doing fine.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You don’t need more to be happy, you need less distraction from what truly matters.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
The things you own end up owning you.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
The things you own end up owning you.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
We’re all mad here.
True love stories never have endings.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Think progress, not perfection.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Think progress, not perfection.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Shut your eyes and see.
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.”
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Only the educated are free.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Only the educated are free.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
We will fail when we fail to try.
The only way to do it is to do it.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product of a life well-lived.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
Stories do not end.
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Difficulties show a person's character.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
Confine yourself to the present.
The carpenter does not come and say, “Hear me talk about the carpenter’s art”; but having undertaken to build a house, he makes it, and proves that he knows the art.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Plato has a fine saying, that he who would discourse of man should survey, as from some high watchtower, the things of earth.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Let us meet with bravery whatever may befall us. Let us never feel a shudder at the thought of being wounded or of being made a prisoner, or of poverty or persecution.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
While you live - while you can - be a good man.
Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
For love of bustle is not industry it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind.
The things you run from are inside you.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.
May the Force be with you.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Let us enjoy our friends avidly, for how long this blessing will fall to our lot is uncertain.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature.
I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.
If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
Do not harm the environment. Do not harm the water and the flora. Earth is our mother, and we are her children.
Curb your desire - don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend’s accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue.
Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Let’s focus on what people with autism can do, rather than what they can’t.
Is a world without pain possible? Then don't ask the impossible.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.
Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is already within yourself, your way of thinking.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.
It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Anger is a brief madness.
Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control. And some things are not.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
Anyone who aspires to make observations about mankind should look upon the human scene as from some lofty height.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Define for me now what the “indifferents” are. Whatever things we cannot control. Tell me the upshot. They are nothing to me.
The other side shall be heard as well.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Things stand outside of us, themselves by themselves, neither knowing anything of themselves nor expressing any judgment.
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time..
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good?
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have.
Hugs are like boomerangs – you get them back right away.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them.
Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course.
We should always be asking ourselves - is this something that is, or is not, in my control?
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Through discipline comes freedom.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
I will have to remember "I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators".
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment.
Sometimes even the wisest of men and machines can be in error.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
I have the power!
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Falling is one of the ways of moving.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
Only the educated are free.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
Only the educated are free.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
This is the mark of perfection of character—to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Where there's life there's hope.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
My rule is that the right time is always right now.
Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
What we really need is to realize how little we really need.
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimating the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The things you run from are inside you.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Well done is better than well said.
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Slow down, you’re doing fine.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Slow down, you’re doing fine.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You don’t need more to be happy, you need less distraction from what truly matters.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
The things you own end up owning you.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
The things you own end up owning you.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
We’re all mad here.
True love stories never have endings.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Think progress, not perfection.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Think progress, not perfection.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Shut your eyes and see.
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.”
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Only the educated are free.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Only the educated are free.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
We will fail when we fail to try.
The only way to do it is to do it.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product of a life well-lived.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling".
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
Stories do not end.
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love