Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.

It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,

share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,

smile at someone and receive a smile in return,

are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Those who are at war with others,
are not at peace with themselves.

Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.