He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
I’m gonna live till I die.
You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You'll see it when you believe it.
In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.
No day but today.
You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.