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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Humor is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;  and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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

Be miserable.
Or motivate yourself.
Whatever has to be done,
it's always your choice.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.