“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”

“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”

“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.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“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.”

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

“You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.”

“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“Don't follow your dreams; chase them.”

“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”

“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.”

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us.”

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.”

“How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily!”

“If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“If you must, you can. If you can't, you must.”

“Think only from the highest vision of yourself and you will be amazed at your creation.”

“Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”

“Luck is not random; it is attracted to those who work hard.”

“If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it.”

“Strength is the inner wills of your "can do consciousness" verses your "can't do consciousness", tussling with each other producing overwhelming determination, persistence that surpasses all of your understanding and the drive of getting the desired results. Your steadfast strength will steer you straight into success.”

“There isn't anything big or small that you can't accomplish when your mind is put to it. Stay focused and strong; the journey of success is within reach!”

“I said to a friend once that the only person that should be admired is your-self. His reply, "Why? Because I have nothing, because I'm stuck at a dead end in life? " No, I said, because of what you could amount to and what you will amount to if you put your mind to it.”

“Be passionate for the cause you live for and success will embrace you.”

“Always put your attention on positive thoughts and let them grow and develop.”

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”

“You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

“To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“Failure teaches success.”

“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself. ”

“So now, alone or not, you've got a walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too. ”

“The ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here, in your heart.”

“Do you believe that if a man repents enough for what he done wrong, than he'll get to go back to the time that was happiest for him and live there forever? Could that be what heaven's like? ”

“Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it, or accept it.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

“Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”

“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 other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.”

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”

“You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

“You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.”

“They can't hurt you unless you let them.”

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

"Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.”

“Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others.”

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”

“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

“You have to believe in yourself.”

“Self-assurance is two-thirds of success.”

“But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.”

“love yourself!”

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

“I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ”

“Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true

“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”

“Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.”

“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

“You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself."

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”

“Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.”

“One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.”

“Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise”

“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.”

“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success”

“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

“Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”

“Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone”

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”

“Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most”

“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses”

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

“Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.”

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.”

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”

“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”

“So just live, make mistakes and have wonderful times,
but never ever second guess who you are, where you've been,
and most importantly where you're going.”

“You're never given the ability to wish
without the ability to make it come true.”

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing themselves.
So go ahead, change yourself. Be who you want to be!”

“Everyday, think as you wake up,
today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am 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.”

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“Run when you can,
Walk when you have to,
Crawl if you must;
Just never give up.”

“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.”

“If you have time to whine and complain
about something then you have the time
to do something about it.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

“Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“Today is just a good day in disguise.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much.”

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as
friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

“The most beautiful discovery true friends
make is that they can grow separately
without growing apart.”

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be.”

“There's nothing more valuable
than having someone in your life
that reminds you of who you are.”

“A good friend is a connection to life
- a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“Life doesn't give you the people you want.
It gives you the people you need to help you,
to hurt you, to love you, to leave you
and to make you into the person you were meant to be.
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that
can pretty much change your life forever.”

“You might just find love in the places you never imagined.
Whatever it is, just don't give up on anything.
And if you don't get it, you might get something better.”

“The truth is, nothing is guaranteed.
So don’t be afraid. Be alive.”

“If children have the ability to ignore
all odds and percentages, then maybe we
can all learn from them. When you think about it,
what other choice is there but to hope?
We have two options, medically and emotionally:
give up or fight like hell.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is
when you discover the core of strength within you
that survives all hurt.”

“So just live, make mistakes and have wonderful times,
but never ever second guess who you are, where you've been,
and most importantly where you're going.”

“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its hot coals.”

“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.”

“I'm a firm believer in serendipity:
all the random pieces coming together
in one wonderful moment, when you
suddenly see what their purpose was all along.”

“Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead,
we should tell them to plan to be surprised.”

“You can't put a limit on anything.
The more you dream, the farther you get.”

“Don't worry about losing.
If it is right, it happens - The main thing
is not to hurry.  Nothing good gets away.”

“All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
And you will tell them yes!”

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.”

“Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.”

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”

“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.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.”

“People want to see beauty, let them see you.”

“When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it. ”

“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ”

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”

“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?”

“Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy. ”
 
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ”

“If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable.”

“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

“Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs, The burning in your legs, And the voice inside you that says "can't!". But you don't listen. You push harder. You hear the voice whisper "can" And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.”

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

“Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. So get inspired!”

“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”

“I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.”

“You've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”

“Shit happens”

“You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where the go, where they've been.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”

“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”

“Peace is its own reward.”

“Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”

“It's okay if you want to limit yourself,
but don't let others do it for you.”

“I'm thinking it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything & maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expect it, life suprises you.”

“Take a chance. Wear your heart on your sleeve.
Ask the most attractive guy in the room to dance.
Say what you want. Demand what you're entitled to.
There's a pretty decent chance that you won't get it,
but who will you be if you never even try?”

“What's so funny about peace love and happiness, we could all use some!”

“You want to know what living life to the fullest actually is? It's waking up on a Monday morning with no complaints. It's knowing you always deserve to laugh. It's doing what feels right, no matter what. It's doing what you want to, no matter how stupid you look. It's about being yourself, 'cause no one can tell you you're doing it wrong.”

“Life kicks you around sometimes. It scares you and it beats you up. But, there’s one day when you realize you’re not just a survivor, you’re a survivor.”

“Choosing the right path is never easy. It’s a decision we make with only our hearts to guide us. But sometimes we find a way to something better. Sometimes we fight through the regret and remorse of our mistakes, our malice and our jealousy and the shame we feel for not being the people we were meant to be. And that’s when we find our way to something better or when something better finds its way to us.”

“You never know where the next miracle is going to come from, the next smile, the next wish come true. But, if you believe it’s right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it, you might just get the thing your looking for.”

“Most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you’ll get everything you wish for. Maybe you’ll get more than you ever could have imagined.”

“Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music?”

“Sometimes pain becomes such a big part of your life that you expect it to always be there. Because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t. But then one day you feel something else, something that feels wrong only because it’s so unfamiliar. And in that moment, you realize you’re happy.”

“The important thing is to not be bitter over life’s disappointments. Learn to let go of the past and recognize that every day won’t be sunny. And when you find yourself lost in the darkness of despair, remember that it’s only in the black of night that you see the stars, and those stars lead you back home.”

“You should chase whatever excites you, be confident, and take risks.”

“People that are meant to be together, always find their way in the end.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

“Rock bottom is a beautiful start;
rise up to show the world your scars.”

“Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. As you make your way from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream. Sometimes you hang onto the bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair is
messed up, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.”

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening, because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is encouraging, because things may get better. To the confident, it is inspiring, because the challenge exists to make things better.”

“When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them.”

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.”

“Success
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.”

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”

“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”

“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”

“Its time to open up your eyes and catch sight
Cause you could wake up in the morning, and not make it to the night
Take advantage of your life, you only get one try
You gonna be satisfied today if tonight you died? ”

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't happened yet.”

“I must learn to love the fool in me. The one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise, you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“Some words of advice: don't do what's easy, do what's right.”

“There is never an ending, just new beginnings. The past makes you who you are but won't predict who you'll be. You choose who you'll become. ”

“we have four years to be irresponsible
relax ; work is for people with jobs. you'll never
remember class time, but you'll remember time
hanging out with your friends. so stay out late
go out on a tuesday night when you have a
paper due wednesday. spend money you dont have
& drink until the sunrise. the work never ends
but highschool does.”

“Some people show off their beauty
because they want the world to see it.
others try to hide their beauty because
they want the world to see something else.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among thing things you only hoped for.”

“Sometimes all you can do is not think. Not wonder, not obsess. Not imagine, just breathe. Breathe in, breathe out. Everything works out in the end, and the more you worry about it the longer it's going to take for things to end perfectly.”

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes.  And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war.  And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained - now everywhere is war.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is
when you discover the core of strength within you, that survives all hurt.”

“everything here is new.. it’s different. it’s different from everything i’ve ever known in my life. but i’m starting over. my life is in my control. coming here, i lost some parts of me. some of them were good, some were bad. but the good and the bad always come together, don’t they? so it will all be okay. this is my life; this is how i’m going to live it, starting over. i’m my own person.”

“Dreams are necessary to life.”

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.”

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“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.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.”

“Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.”

“I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.”

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

“The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.”

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.”

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”

“Avoid negative people at all costs.They are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self-esteem.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].”

“Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.”

“With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.”

“Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.”

“This has been my life; I found it worth living. ”

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

“Humor is a universal language.”

“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”

“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”

“life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” 

“You can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”

“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”

“Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.”

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”