With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. " "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. " "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
The constant happiness is curiosity.
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.