Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

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.