Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
- Henry Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, then let it come in.
You are not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to by things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
We don't see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason - over every idea.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Karma is the unfolding of the laws of cause and effect that have created what you are, and that still are effecting you lawfully.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man who has the wrong mental attitude.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Do or do not, there is no try.- Yoda
Success is within reach, if you believe that success is already yours. What you imagine is the seed of what you will experience.- Ramez Sasson
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.- Henry Thoreau