A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’
We are all fools in love.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.