Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
There is only one language, the language of the Heart;
There is only one caste, the caste of Humanity;
There is only one law, the law of Karma;
There is only one God, He is Omnipresent.
Spend the Day with Love;
Fill the Day with Love;
End the Day with Love;
This is the way to God.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.
It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?"
That's where courage comes in.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
Some day will come a great awakening, when we will know this life was like a dream.
Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.
but it is essential to like yourself.
It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being,
but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable.
It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love,
but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else.
You cannot be given a life by someone else.
Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
To the question of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
After all, if you don't follow YOUR desires, then who's?
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
May we know unity without conformity.
May we grow in strength without pride of self.
May we, in our dealings with all people of the earth,
ever speak the truth and serve justice.
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands,
flame brightly until at last the darkness is no more.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?
Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.
That myth is more potent than history.
That dreams are more powerful than facts.
That hope always triumphs over experience.
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Show me and I remember.
Let me do and I understand.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.
Why of course the people don't want war... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that I did not kiss you enough.
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in you hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
You need someone silent and sincere. Someone that, if needed, will pray for you or fight for you. If you have someone that can laugh and cry with you, then you can say: I have a friend.
We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as scaling down our wants. Not wanting some thing is as good as possessing it.
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The inn is full on the planet earth.
And by greed & pride the sky is torn -
Yet Love still takes the risk of birth.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Jesus left a road map,
Krishna left a road map,
Rand McNally left a road map.
But you still have to travel the road yourself.
getting shorter. It's ticking away.
I'm not saying this to frighten you. Or even scare you.
Though it may. I'm saying this to you to awaken you.
To inspire you. To rise you out of you're deep slumber.
To really know you won't live forever.
To share your unique gifts.
To ignite your great inner fire.
To ignite your great inner strength.
To ignite your great inner light.
To shine.
Brightly shine.
To ignite your great inner beauty. To motivate.
Yourself and others.
To love. Yourself and others.
To paint. To write. To teach. To innovate. To sing.
To dance. To care. To feel. To listen. To learn. To laugh.
The clock's ticking. The world needs you.
Make your move.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
It's the light of the oncoming train.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win!
We drew a circle that took him in.
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
In Germany they came first for the Communists,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious,
these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence
and become part of it.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Do more than touch, feel.
Do more than look, observe.
Do more than read, absorb.
Do more than hear, listen.
Do more than think, ponder.
Do more than talk, say something.