The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes

The two most important days of your life are the day you're born and the day you find out why

I think 99 times, and nothing comes to me. I stop thinking, and swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate. Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Someone who believes in infinite growth is either a madman or an economist.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.

The greatest threat to the planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

You cannot beg for freedom; freedom is something you must take.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Nearly all men are slaves for lack of power to pronounce the syllable, “No.” To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one’s freedom and one’s character.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To reach your greatest potential you’ll have to fight your greatest fears.

Your brain’s job is to take care of your survival. Your job is to take care of your happiness.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

My name is not my own, it is borrowed from my ancestors, I must return it unstained. My honor is not my own it is on loan from my Descendants, I must give it to them unbroken. Our blood is not our own, it is a gift to Generations yet unborn we should carry it with responsibility.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Eventually, it will become a necessity to answer our real vocation, which isn’t to produce and consume, but to love, admire and take care of all life and all of the forms it assumes.

Pain is a sensation accompanied by the desire to withdrawal from the sensation. Energy/sensation is a language, the primary language of organic life. Listen and understand the pain instead of running the other way.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live

You can numb yourself but you can’t fool yourself.

You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity