you can, you should, and if youre brave enough to start, you will.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

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

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

You can never know enough about your characters.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you cant erase the history that produced them.

You are never too old to have an active imagination.

With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

When youre always scheming about ways to make money, its like a part of you is lost.

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesnt really feel like a sacrifice.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The young feel tired at the end of an action the old at the beginning.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you cant shut your mind.

The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Dont wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you dont, it fills you up with its emptiness.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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

My heart is a compass, and it always leads me back to you.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.