Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi
Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
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.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."