Best I Can Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God’s love within me and around me.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do … let me do it now.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people … I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality… become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Leap, and the net will appear.

I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ… if I can’t take him with me, I don’t want to go.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature… But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

I don’t need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don’t get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can’t buy any of it.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that’s fine, but just don’t look down on me. Don’t say, ‘Oh, you’re in a wheelchair.

I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.