As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Give out what you most want to come back.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.