Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that makes you smile.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

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

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’ll stop living to impress people.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

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

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

The Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.