" The only man who never makes mistakes

is the man who never does anything. "

" You are perfect exactly as you are.

With all your flaws and problems,

there’s no need to change anything.

All you need to change is

the thought that

you aren’t good enough. "

" When we are young,

the words are scattered all around us.

As they are assembled by experience,

so also are we,

sentence by sentence,

until the story takes shape. "

“People who matter are most aware 

that everyone else does, too.”

" The difference between what you were 

yesterday,

and what you will be tomorrow

is what you do today. "

" There are two ways you can get through pain.

You can let it destroy you,

or you can use it as fuel to drive you:

to dream bigger, to work harder. "

" Life may have no meaning.

Or even worse,

it may have a meaning

of which I disapprove. "

" Find a time and place of solitude.

Look into the distance,

and into the future.

Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build,

and begin to build that tomorrow,

today. "

" Never say ‘no’ to adventures.

Always say ‘yes’,

otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life. "

" If you don’t live on the edge,

you can’t see the view."

" Our bodies are our gardens

to which our wills

are gardeners. "

" Not only to say the right thing

 in the right place,

but far more difficult,

 to leave unsaid

the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "

" How old would you be if

you didn’t know how old you are? "

" Life is precious,

do not waste it doing anything

that your heart does not

respect or agree with. "

" Today a reader, tomorrow a leader "

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you'll start having positive results.

" If everyone is thinking alike

then somebody isn’t thinking "

" We are more alike

than we are different "

" Little progress can be made

by merely attempting to repress what is evil.

Our great hope lies

in developing what is good "

" You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose "

" So many things are possible

just as long as you don’t know

they’re impossible "

" There are far too many of us

who place far too much stock

in being alive

and far too little in living "

" Look within

Within is the fountain of good,

and it will ever bubble up,

if thou wilt ever dig "

" The practice of forgiveness 

is our most important contribution

 

to the healing of the world. "

“A society is defined

not only by what it creates,

but by what it refuses to destroy.”

“An idealist is one who,

on noticing that

a rose smells better than a cabbage,

concludes that it makes a better soup.”

“That the situation appears

 hopeless

should not prevent us from

 doing our best.”

"Thankfully,

dreams can change.

If we’d all stuck with our first dream,

the world would be overrun

with cowboys and princesses "

“God does not play favorites.

The difference between a flower

or wildflower or weed

is only a matter

of human judgment.”