Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
It’s never too late to do the right thing.
Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.
Always do whatever’s next.
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.