If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

You never lose until you actually give up.

Do not dwell in the past, for your future needs you. Your past does not.

Saying ‘no’ can be the ultimate self-care.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Courage is grace under pressure.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.

Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

The will to be oneself is heroism

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The guy who’s willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Love, peace and soul.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Allow yourself to transform as many times as you need to be fully happy and free.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.

No prayer is complete without presence.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.

Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Good things come to those who hustle.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

There’s boldness in being assertive; there’s strength and confidence.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.

It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you’re going through hell, keep going.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.

A person’s fate is their own temper.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Disasters teach us humility.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

It is humankind’s duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.