I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.