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No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
Sep 15, 2025
If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
The best revenge is massive success.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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