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You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. This is My Story
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Without music, life would be a mistake. Twilight of the Idols
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Lady Windermere's Fan
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... Oh, the Places You'll Go!
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Everything you can imagine is real.
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A person's a person, no matter how small. Horton Hears a Who!
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. The Notebook
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. The Alchemist
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Alchemist
Don't think or judge, just listen. Just Listen
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. Tao Te Ching
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. Paradise Lost
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Brida
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. Speak
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be happy, be.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. Tuesdays With Morrie
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Macbeth
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Better to be strong than pretty and useless. Strange Angels
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
There is no good and evil; only power and those too weak to see it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. Fight Club
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward. Life, the Truth, and Being Free
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
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. How to Win Friends and Influence People
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...' (Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...) The Little Prince
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Do or do not; there is no try. (Yoda) Great science fiction film stories.
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for..." "They don't find it," I answered. "And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." "Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." The Little Prince
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. I Have A Dream
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Art is the proper task of life.
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox The Little Prince
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Tears are words that need to be written.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. Gone With the Wind
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Well done is better than well said.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. The Diary of Anne Frank
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
the time is always right to do the right thing
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Illusions
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
My Life is My Message
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? The Essential Rumi
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Nothing will work unless you do.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. Sunset Gun
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Things do not change; we change.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Waiting for Godot
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
All great achievements require time.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. The Little Prince
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. On Writing
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it. The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. The Stand
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. The Alchemist
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
You become what you think about all day long.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Illusions
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life is wasted on the living. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. Self-Reliance
Life begins on the other side of despair.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. The Power of Myth
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
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. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. The Little Prince
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Think and Grow Rich
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
With our thoughts we make the world.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
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.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. Rabbit, Run
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Every Generation Needs a New Revolution Quotations of Thomas Jefferson
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong Strength to Love
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.
Life is about becoming more of who you really are....
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...