How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Till I loved I never lived.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Not all those who wander are lost.
The more you know yourself, the more you seek inner peace.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
To me, the moral of the story was that there will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Imagination is the soul’s happiest retreat.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Lost time is never found again.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
You're only given a spark of madness. You musn’t lose it.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Wars not make one great
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Do or do not. There is no try.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
Going in one more round when you don’t think you can. That’s what makes all the difference in your life.
Doors are for people with no imagination.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care.
Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Don’t count the days, make the days count.
If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Spirituality is not about what you believe. It is about the kind of person you are.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
When love is not madness it is not love.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.
In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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!
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us – power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
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.
Hope is a waking dream.
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.
We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Do or do not. There is no try.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
The things you own end up owning you.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
He who is brave is free.
Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.
Think progress, not perfection.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Life is available only in the present moment.
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.
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.
You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
We need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives. For me, if you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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?
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
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.
At the end of the day, you are the only one that is limiting your ability to dream, or to actually execute on your dreams. Don’t let yourself get in the way of that.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
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.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
You have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
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.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Confine yourself to the present.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.
In the end, winning is sleeping better.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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.
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.
As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
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.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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.
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
Life is available only in the present moment.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us – power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Till I loved I never lived.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Not all those who wander are lost.
The more you know yourself, the more you seek inner peace.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
To me, the moral of the story was that there will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Imagination is the soul’s happiest retreat.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Lost time is never found again.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
You're only given a spark of madness. You musn’t lose it.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Wars not make one great
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Do or do not. There is no try.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
Going in one more round when you don’t think you can. That’s what makes all the difference in your life.
Doors are for people with no imagination.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care.
Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Don’t count the days, make the days count.
If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Spirituality is not about what you believe. It is about the kind of person you are.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
When love is not madness it is not love.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.
In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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!
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us – power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
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.
Hope is a waking dream.
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.
We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
You should keep learning…to the end of your life.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Do or do not. There is no try.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
The things you own end up owning you.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
He who is brave is free.
Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life.
You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.
Every material is only worth what we make out of it.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.
Think progress, not perfection.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Life is available only in the present moment.
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.
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.
You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
We need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives. For me, if you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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?
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
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.
At the end of the day, you are the only one that is limiting your ability to dream, or to actually execute on your dreams. Don’t let yourself get in the way of that.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Joy comes to us from those whom we love, even when they are absent.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
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.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
You have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
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.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Confine yourself to the present.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.
In the end, winning is sleeping better.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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.
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.
As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
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.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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.
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
Life is available only in the present moment.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us – power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.